Standing up for Nature
Tomorrow morning Sheffield kicks off a great line-up of Hen Harrier Day events (a week ahead of anyone else!). Last year’s event on Devonshire Green was very good – I’m sure this one will be too. The best of luck to all the speakers – and if you possibly can show your support…
This new e-petition which mentions grouse shooting is on the UK parliament website – I won’t be signing this one as I think it is badly timed and too broad. But these two petitions are well worth signing: An independent study to find if driven grouse shooting is of economic benefit. End grouse…
There are three petitions going the rounds at the moment which refer to grouse shooting. These two are well worthy of support in my opinion: A petition on the UK parliament website which calls for an independent study to assess the economic benefit of grouse shooting – proposed by Les Wallace (a frequent commenter…
These are some words from Inglorious (written in 2014), they are the imagined words of an ex-gamekeeper writing of the demise of driven grouse shotoing p253-54): ‘In the end, with all that satellite-tag stuff, you could hardly point your shotgun at a bird of prey without fearing it might be a tagged bird that…