In a long piece in the Daily Record on Saturday, Annie Brown (The true cost of grouse shooting) talks about the move to ban driven grouse shooting, and quotes me extensively. In the Glasgow Herald, there is a piece entitled ‘Calls mount for ban on grouse shooting‘ where an animal welfare charity, OneKind, formerly known…
Category: EVENTS: BirdFair, HHDay, Game Fair etc
What the Sunday papers say
We (I’m not sure exactly who ‘we’ is, but it certainly includes this blog and many of its readers, along with the RSPB, Chris Packham, BAWC, Raptor Persecution Scotland, Raptor Politics and others) have changed the way the media look at the opening of the grouse shooting season – the Inglorious 12th (this year on…
All in all it’s just another death on the moor
Suggested by Rachael Conway To the music of Pink Floyd’s Brick in the Wall? We don’t want no persecution We don’t want no brood control An end to killing on the moorland Shooter leave our birds alone Hey shooter leave our birds alone All in all it’s just another death on the moor Ban…
Henry is puzzled
Henry is confused – but then, he only has the brain of a bird. The National Trust sometimes describes itself as ‘one of Europe’s leading nature conservation organisations’ but sometimes it seems to be lurking at the rear rather than leading anything. It’s puzzling for we National Trust members not just for a bird-brained Hen…
Chris Packham talking naturally to Charlie Moores
You’ll enjoy listening to this podcast recorded on Monday when a small gang of us visited Chris Packham in the New Forest. Chris talks to Charlie Moores about Hen Harriers and Hen Harrier Day, Cecil the Lion, hatred and deep loathing, the state of wildlife NGOs, the BTO, looking at butterflies and what the future…
Henry finds some more friends in the Peak District
As we move closer and closer to Hen Harrier Day on Sunday, Henry met up with friends from the Derbyshire Wildlife Trust – strong supporters of Hen Harrier Day. On the left is Tim Birch who wrote a Guest Blog for this site last year. This photo was taken a while ago and yesterday Tim…
More on the Game Fair
Yesterday I didn’t go to the Game Fair but the Today programme did. And Farming Today were there too. Farming Today repeated C(W)TG’s Andrew Gilruth’s inability to answer a question here after about 15 minutes. Did you notice how Andrew claimed that grouse moors had been designated because they were teeming with wildlife? He’s such…
Henry’s Game Fair
I’ve been to many Game Fairs but this was Henry’s first. He was a little bit nervous but he had a gaggle of burly minders with him. As well as myself there were Lawrie and Phil from BAWC and Alan Davies from The Biggest Twitch. It was a rather quiet Game Fair I felt, fewer…
Henry finds another butt
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Off to the Game Fair
This afternoon at 2pm I am the token leftie on a panel at the CLA Game Fair – it’s very nice of them to invite me. In theory, we are discussing whether landowners are friends or foes of wildlife. I suspect we might get on to grouse shooting at some stage. I wish Henry were…