Hen Harriers can’t fight back! They need your help. In 2015 there were only six successful Hen Harrier nests in England – and that was a better year than many recent ones. There should be c330 pairs of Hen Harrier nesting in England in upland areas such as the Peak District, the North York…
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Natalie Bennett calls again for ban on grouse shooting
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After visiting Walshaw Moor and the flood-hit town of Hebden Bridge, Green Party leader, Natalie Bennett, reiterated her party’s call for a ban on grouse shooting. Bennett was reported in the Daily Telegraph as saying that intensive grouse moor management is ‘incompatible with 21st-century needs of flood prevention‘ and called it a ‘conservation disaster‘. She…
And thank you Scotland!
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Thank you to all those in Scotland who have signed the e-petition on the Westminster government website calling for a debate to ban driven grouse shooting. We’ll do the same for you if you need it! We see the usual pattern of signatures in Scotland – many more in rural areas than urban ones, and…
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
There are just six days left to sign our successful e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting. Ask your friends on Twitter, Facebook and in real life! Although the ills of driven grouse shooting are far wider than just wildlife crime directed at birds of prey such as Hen Harriers, systematic illegal persecution of birds of…
Where you are – updated update
If you had a guess at how many signatures our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting will achieve before it closes on 21 January then your name should be on this list. If your name is in red, then I’m afraid events have already passed you by – but thank you for being a sport…
Defra’s plan
Whatever it was that Defra published yesterday, it was not an action plan to save Hen Harriers. It was a hybrid between a Hen Harrier inaction plan and an action plan to postpone the demise of driven grouse shooting. In that regard it was generally a damp squib; a small victory for the grouse shooting…
Langholm bombshell
The latest, blog #5, in Ruth Tingay’s series of Guest Blogs on the fascinating meeting organised by the GWCT back in November was notable for its revelation from Mark Oddy of Buccleuch Estates that the estate, for he said he was speaking as Buccleuch Estates, want lethal control of raptors, initially under licence. So Langholm…
The real Hen Harrier Action Plan
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Defra Hen Harrier Inaction Plan launched
Today, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz I will comment in detail some time, but this plan gives every reason to sign this e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting just to send a message to Defra that we want more action for Hen Harriers (and flooding, and water quality, and peat erosion, and greenhouse gas emissions, and blanket bogs, and…
Guest blog – Langholm Q&A by Dr Ruth Tingay
Dr Ruth Tingay is a raptor conservationist with field experience from North & Central America, Europe, Africa, Central and SE Asia. She studied the critically endangered Madagascar Fish Eagle for a PhD at Nottingham University and is a past president of the Raptor Research Foundation. She’s currently researching the illegal persecution of raptors & its…