Press release about Hebden Bridge protests on Friday and Saturday: STARTS Hebden Bridge people will gather in St Georges Square at 9am on 12th and 13th August to protest the not-so-glorious 12th August, traditionally the start of the grouse shooting season. It is widely accepted that mismanagement of the Walshaw Moor blanket bogs for…
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80,000+ for the Inglorious 12th
We have momentum! Thank you to everyone for your help and support. 80,000+ signatures and we are still a couple of days from the Inglorious 12th when grouse shooting traditionally starts! Because the average constituency must get 154 signatures by 20 September if we are to hit 100,000, I have listed those which have already…
The true face of driven grouse shooting
Intensive grouse shooting depends on wildlife crime – protected raptors have to be killed in order for the big ‘bags’ of Red Grouse to be possible. Even if a particular grouse moor does not kill protected raptors, they will benefit if other grouse moors, near and far, do so. Intensive grouse shooting is underpinned by…
Defra ministers – you need to get a grip
You really know that your predecessors in the job were doing a rubbish job when the top three trending subjects on the Westminster parliament website are in your area – Defra. It’s not the fault of Andrea Leadsom and Therese Coffey that Liz Truss and Rory Stewart did such a poor job for wildlife but…
The Inglorious 12th is Friday. Journalists – get your story here
The story about the start of the grouse shooting season this year – on Friday, the Inglorious 12th – is that more 80,000 people have signed a petition to ban driven grouse shooting. Of 3600+ open e-petitions on the Westminster parliament website this e-petition ranks as the 16th most-signed. I am very, very hopeful that…
IPSO annual report
You may remember that there was a lot of fuss last year over a YFTB-led error-strewn piece in the Daily Telegraph. Many of us complained to the Daily Telegraph and then on to the Independent Press Standards Organisation. With their help we got the Telegraph to correct the piece and print an apology – a…
Leaflet strategy and how you can help, please
There are three types of people in the world of e-petition leaflets: those who haven’t asked for leaflets those who have asked for leaflets and got them those who have asked for leaflets and not got them This post is mostly of relevance to the third category of people, but is also of some relevance…
A Hen Harrier Day message from Bill Oddie
Bill is one of the strong supporters of this e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting that passed 78,000 signatures a little while ago today (having passed 77,000 signatures this morning). Please sign to make an old Goodie very happy.
Dear Amanda
‘If we let the hen harrier in, we will soon have nothing else. That is why we need this brood management plan’ – Amanda Anderson, Director, Moorland Association Dear Amanda Could you please give the following police forces a list of your members who are not ‘letting’ Hen Harriers onto their moors: Cleveland Police…
#HHDay2016 at Edale – a few words and images
In many ways, I thought that this was the very best Hen Harrier Day event ever. But the very first with the #sodden570 must just edge it for those who were there. Back in the Peak District two years later, after another successful rally in 2015 in the Goyt Valley, we gathered in a car…