Which way did you vote? It comes to something when I am slightly relieved that it might be Theresa May who is running the country! The Brexiteers didn’t have a clue what they were doing – or so it seems – except they knew what they didn’t want. But they didn’t have a route map…
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A bit rainy
What a fine looking male – Henry anyway! We’d been sussing out filming locations in the North York Moors one day last week and we needed a nice cup of coffee so, by chance, we visited the Milburn Arms Hotel where we did have a very enjoyable cup of coffee. OK, it wasn’t completely by…
48,000 – put the guns down, walk away from the guns!
Today our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting reached 48,000 signatures. Thank you to all of you who have signed, asked your friends and relatives to sign, supported the promotion of the e-petition financially and helped in many other ways. There has been quite a surge in signatures from Scotland recently and a bit of…
June
It may have been a wet June but the sun was shining on this blog. With a little under 30,000 unique visitors and over 113,000 page views this blog had its second most successful month ever (in terms of those measurements). The most successful was April 2016.
FC England take the lead (out)
Forestry Commission England have done what they said they would do, and from the opening of the deer and boar culling season the vast majority of all such animals culled on FCE land will have been culled with non-toxic lead ammunition. The very small exceptions will be areas where the sporting rights have been retained…
No ammunition?
After Henry’s visit to the Game Fair last year the CLA admitted defeat and ended the CLA Game Fair. This year there are several game fairs on the go but the ‘UK Game Fair’ has fallen by the wayside, presumably in anticipation of the Brexit result. That’s a shame as I was going to…
Scotland signs up for a ban
Here are the Scottish constituencies – and what a fantastic contribution they are making to the overall total of almost 47,000 signatures for a ban on driven grouse shooting. Last time, Scotland, in 6 months, produced c2900 signatures out of 33,700. This time, in just over three months, Scotland has already produced c4800 signatures out…
Fishing moratorium
I really am struggling to think of anything realistic and positive for the environment that will come out of our Brexit. Here is an example that would fit beautifully into the Brexiteers’ suggestion that we could do so much better when we regain control of our own destiny – but it simply won’t happen, I…
Bradford Council gives go-ahead to Ilkley grouse shooting consultation
Bradford Council gave the go-ahead to a public consultation on the future of controversial grouse shooting on Ilkley Moor at City Hall last night, a move welcomed by campaigners. ‘There is only one way to manage moorland for grouse shooting and that’s through intensively burning away and draining precious habitat, at the cost of our…
Water companies and grouse shooting
Given what we know about the impacts of intensive grouse moor management on flood risk and water quality it would be interesting to know the state of play with United Utilities, Northumbria Water, Severn Trent Water and Yorkshire Water, on how much land they own and how much is managed for grouse shooting. Of this…