Gavin Gamble approaches 25,000 signatures

Gavin Gamble’s e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting is fast approaching 25,000 signatures. Next milestone is 25,322 signatures – the number reached by the last pro-grouse shooting petition. Please sign here. Why not ask your partner, friend, workmates, neighbours to sign too?  Just send them the link to the petition with a few encouraging words…

Guest blog by Anonymous

Dear Dr. Avery While it is undoubtedly the case that lead is a “bad thing” in general I have one good example of where the removal of significant amounts of lead from the environment has led to some very unwelcome environmental harm locally. For several years now, following the purchase of our home here in…

Plastic wrappings

This is today’s third blog about the RSPB. First we had a good piece of research, then their cogitations on doing the right thing and now a confusing question about packaging of the magazine, Nature’s Home. When I came home from seeing Hawfinches yesterday there were two magazines waiting for me, Nature’s Home and Private…

The RSPB and licensing of grouse moors

In Martin Harper’s blog at the beginning of the week were embedded a few words of support for Ed Hutchings’s e-petition on licensing of grouse shooting.  These are the words: ‘For the past four years, we have argued that a system of licensing of driven grouse shooting is essential to help protect our amazing upland…