Standing up for Nature
Original blog on this subject from August 2015. If this image of a Mountain Hare leveret caught in a gamekeeper’s trap upsets you, then please remember that this type of thing is going on in our National Parks wherever driven grouse shooting bumps up against Mountain Hares, and make your views known through this website…
If this image of dead Mountain Hares lying in a gamekeeper’s stink pit upsets you, then please remember that this type of thing is going on in our National Parks wherever driven grouse shooting bumps up against Mountain Hares and make your views known through this website on the future of our National Parks. You…
If this image of a truckload of ‘inconvenient’ Mountain Hares in the Cairngorms National Park upsets you, then please make your views known by signing this e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting. You could also sign this e-petition asking Scottish ministers to protect the Mountain Hare.
The second BAWC conference was even better than the excellent first one. Many thanks to the organisers and the sponsors (RSPB, Rare Bird Alert and League Against Cruel Sports) for doing such a great job. Henry is pictured above on board the SS Great Britain as the conference venue was right next to Brunel’s iron…
I had a feeling it was worth numbering these blogs! The hapless GWCT have been stung into responding to the questions posed here – but with evasion not with answers. Their slipping integrity slips further. GWCT say: Step 1 – We became aware that this paper had been made publicly available on Swansea University’s website….
There was a bit of chatter at the weekend’s BAWC conference about the role of the GWCT in the continuing breaking of the embargo of a scientific paper about burning of heather that will not be published until 23 May. Most people just shrugged and said something rude about GWCT indicating their lack of respect…
The subject of yesterday’s blog, mass killing of Mountain Hares in the Cairngorms National Park at a time when landowners have been asked to show restraint, was also covered in the Glasgow Herald and on the Raptor Persecution Scotland blog (but this blog was the first place to publish the photo above). The Herald‘s Rob…
Oscar writes: On our last evening in the Tetons, we spent a couple of hours at a spot where in the previous two days we had seen Elk, Otters, Beavers, Grizzly Bears, Bald Eagles, Kingfishers and Moose. Parking up and getting out we saw that there were a few people standing on the river bank…
A few lads out and about on the Lecht road a couple of weeks ago. I wonder what they were up to? Take a closer look… The back of that vehicle is full of a mountain of Mountain Hares. So the voluntary restraint seems to be working as well as we might have expected then?…
You might be wondering what a book with this title is doing on this website. Well spotted! This is a book which uses the wacky idea that historical characters were tattooed, to tell some jokes. Some of the jokes are ones which you might not want to tell your grandma or your children as they…