I’m really not well up on what happened in the English uplands this weekend – not just on Ilkley Moor (above) but also elsewhere. I’d be keen to know what happened – can anyone tell please? And I have always wondered where the legal line is about walking on moors when shooting might be…
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And then there were all those Hen Harrier Day events – more highly attended than ever before. Here are some photos and estimates of attendances – some revised from earlier. Let’s travel from south to north. Hen Harrier Day South – 500 attendees for speeches – many more interactions through the day. Hen…
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When a man with a fairly posh accent says, on the BBC’s flagship morning news programme, ‘Any bird that gets in the way of that [the cash crop of grouse shooting] is annihilated‘ then it’s time to start thinking of selling your grouse moor before its value plummets. David Cobham was talking to John Humphreys…
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This video of tweed-clad armed men repeatedly visiting a Marsh Harrier nest on a Yorkshire moor, released by the RSPB last week, is being investigated by the police. Let’s hope it is seen many more times than the 5000 so far – the RSPB needs to promote these hard-won pieces of evidence much more forcefully….
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I know I mention Twitter a lot here, and some readers are completely familiar with it and others completely bemused. This little post will sort out which side of that divide you are on! BASC, the Bullying Aggressive Shooting Community (or something like that), suggested to their followers that they should take a selfie (photograph…
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‘Encouraging a response from those who defend the status quo is important too. A victory is scored when your opponents are forced to debate issues they would rather leave ignored…‘ from Owen Jones, The Establishment. Well, there’s been a lot of that going on recently: Grouse shooting: half a million reasons why time’s up for…
It’s been a really bad few days for the grouse shooters (1)
It’s been a really bad few days for the grouse shooters – some of the wounds have been entirely self-inflicted and others have been because they don’t have much defence against the truth or the masses of the people. Let’s start with Findlay Wilde, now luxuriating on holiday somewhere near a mistnet in Portugal. His…
Tim Melling – Barred Grass Snake
Tim writes: I’m sure that many of you will have seen the surprising news announced recently that Britain has a new species of snake; Barred Grass Snake (Natrix helvetica). Without exception, every media source announced that this was an additional species for Britain, bringing the total to four (Barred Grass Snake, Grass Snake, Smooth…
Yesterday in London in pictures (and some words)
Yesterday I went on a march in London with lots of other people protesting against driven grouse shooting, the badger cull and any chance that fox hunting should be reinstated. And I said a brief few words and listened to a range of passionate speakers such as Chris Packham, Peter Egan, Natalie Bennett, Dominic…
My article in The Observer today
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/12/grouse-shooting-glorious-twelfth-times-up-for-inglorious-victorian-sport