Standing up for Nature
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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…
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…
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…
Considering that our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting is aimed at the Westminster government and refers to England, I am touched that it has 1300+ signatures from the people of Wales, the land of my mother (not my fathers). All UK residents are entitled to sign the e-petition and so I’d like to encourage…