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If you were to take a walk, or a drive, or a cycle, from North West Hampshire (maybe Andover, but I prefer Whitchurch), or from somewhere even nicer, perhaps Beaulieu Road Station (where I saw my first Hobby in about 1971?) in the New Forest East constituency then you could pass through Salisbury (a place…

  George Monbiot, author, journalist and environmental campaigner, says: ‘Driven grouse shooting should be banned as it is a major – and entirely unnecessary – cause of environmental destruction‘.   To join George Monbiot please sign Gavin Gamble’s e-petition which calls for a ban on driven grouse shooting.   And this blog, and I’m sure…

  Brian Egan General Manager of Rare Bird Alert UK says: ‘Killing Red Grouse for fun and profit is absurd, immoral and has no place in modern society.  This absurdity is compounded by the killing of other wildlife, both legally and illegally, to facilitate this fun.  The industry of driven grouse shooting is rotten to…

  Kerry McCarthy MP (Labour, Bristol East) says: ‘Only a minority of people choose to participate in the so-called “sport” of grouse shooting, which causes the unnecessary and cruel deaths of millions of game birds every year, but their hobby has an impact on us all. Moorland that is burnt or drained greatly increases the…

    Terry Pickford, raptor worker, says ‘I definitely support a ban of driven grouse shooting because of the obvious damage this so called fieldsport continues to cause to a wide variety of protected birds of prey on red grouse moorland. These remote heather regions located in the north of England are being managed in…