The poll on whether grouse shooting should be banned (Banned remember! Not better regulated – the whole nine yards of banning) in the Yorkshire Post (the Yorkshire Post – not the Islington Post) is neatly poised at close to 50:50 after more than 10,000 votes. In fact, not banning it was a smidgeon (second use…
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It’s been a really bad few days for the grouse shooters (7)
I’m really not well up on what happened in the English uplands this weekend – not just on Ilkley Moor (above) but also elsewhere. I’d be keen to know what happened – can anyone tell please? And I have always wondered where the legal line is about walking on moors when shooting might be…
It’s been a really bad few days for the grouse shooters (6)
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And then there were all those Hen Harrier Day events – more highly attended than ever before. Here are some photos and estimates of attendances – some revised from earlier. Let’s travel from south to north. Hen Harrier Day South – 500 attendees for speeches – many more interactions through the day. Hen…
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When a man with a fairly posh accent says, on the BBC’s flagship morning news programme, ‘Any bird that gets in the way of that [the cash crop of grouse shooting] is annihilated‘ then it’s time to start thinking of selling your grouse moor before its value plummets. David Cobham was talking to John Humphreys…
It’s been a really bad few days for the grouse shooters (4)
This video of tweed-clad armed men repeatedly visiting a Marsh Harrier nest on a Yorkshire moor, released by the RSPB last week, is being investigated by the police. Let’s hope it is seen many more times than the 5000 so far – the RSPB needs to promote these hard-won pieces of evidence much more forcefully….