Alan Stewart, former police officer and current author, says; ‘I used to help with grouse beating and occasionally shoot grouse. The wildlife crime I encountered on driven grouse moors while a police wildlife crime officer, especially on those intensive moors managed by sporting agents, and the almost impossibility of obtaining a conviction, convinced me…
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Chris Luffingham of LACS says ‘Ban driven grouse shooting’
Chris Luffingham, Campaigns Director of the League Against Cruel Sports says: ‘Driven grouse shooting is essentially a series of massacres in which up to 700,000 birds are shot on moorland each year, according to the shooting industry’s own figures. It causes a huge amount of unnecessary suffering with many grouse being shot and wounded…
Mark Cocker says ‘Ban driven grouse shooting’
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Mark Cocker, author and naturalist, says: ‘The moral and environmental case against driven-grouse shooting is now unassailable. It is a matter of time before the politics catches up with these values. Gavin Gamble’s e-petition creates a fair wind for this to come to pass.’ To join Mark Cocker, please sign Gavin Gamble’s e-petition which…
Chris Packham says ‘Ban driven grouse shooting’
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Chris Packham, naturalist, photographer, author and TV presenter says: ‘Out of place, out of date, out of order and out of time – driven grouse shooting is finished, so lets kill it off ‘. To join Chris Packham, please sign Gavin Gamble’s e-petition which calls for a ban on driven grouse shooting.
Ralph Steadman and Ceri Levy say ‘Ban driven grouse shooting’
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Ceri and Ralph say ‘We support the ban on driven grouse shooting because this “sport” benefits the few to the detriment of many who have no idea just how much wildlife has been taken from the landscape. We owe it to the creatures that inhabit our land to stop the persecution now. As Gonzovationists, we…
Central southern England in the 90s
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If you were to take a walk, or a drive, or a cycle, from North West Hampshire (maybe Andover, but I prefer Whitchurch), or from somewhere even nicer, perhaps Beaulieu Road Station (where I saw my first Hobby in about 1971?) in the New Forest East constituency then you could pass through Salisbury (a place…
George Monbiot says ‘Ban driven grouse shooting’
George Monbiot, author, journalist and environmental campaigner, says: ‘Driven grouse shooting should be banned as it is a major – and entirely unnecessary – cause of environmental destruction‘. To join George Monbiot please sign Gavin Gamble’s e-petition which calls for a ban on driven grouse shooting. And this blog, and I’m sure…
Brian Egan says ‘Ban driven grouse shooting’
Brian Egan General Manager of Rare Bird Alert UK says: ‘Killing Red Grouse for fun and profit is absurd, immoral and has no place in modern society. This absurdity is compounded by the killing of other wildlife, both legally and illegally, to facilitate this fun. The industry of driven grouse shooting is rotten to…
Kerry McCarthy MP says ‘Ban driven grouse shooting’
Kerry McCarthy MP (Labour, Bristol East) says: ‘Only a minority of people choose to participate in the so-called “sport” of grouse shooting, which causes the unnecessary and cruel deaths of millions of game birds every year, but their hobby has an impact on us all. Moorland that is burnt or drained greatly increases the…
Terry Pickford says ‘Ban driven grouse shooting’
Terry Pickford, raptor worker, says ‘I definitely support a ban of driven grouse shooting because of the obvious damage this so called fieldsport continues to cause to a wide variety of protected birds of prey on red grouse moorland. These remote heather regions located in the north of England are being managed in…