Category: e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting

All good things must come to an end and Gavin Gamble’s e-petition is a good thing which ends at midnight today. On this rainy Bank Holiday Monday you could just spend a few moments emailing a few friends and asking them to sign up using this link https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/201443 Yesterday was a brilliant day for Gavin’s…

Natalie Bennett is a Green Party politician, and says; ‘I first learnt about the damage driven grouse shooting moors were doing to their neighbours with disastrous land management practices after the 2015/16 floods. And I found out about the carbon emission impacts of their activities. Then I learnt about the plight of the hen harriers…

Gavin Gamble’s e-petition continues to motor along – it passed 44,000 signatures this morning and must, surely, be heading for well above 45,000 signatures by midnight on Monday? Generally speaking, we know that support for banning driven grouse shooting is greatest from rural constituencies (not townies at all). But all signatures count, and there are…

Yesterday another eight Westminster constituencies joined the ‘100 signatures’ club taking the total past 100 to 102 constituencies. And the last 24 hours delivered 600 signatures in total – a very good day.  The total is now 43,886 signatures in favour of banning driven grouse shooting. Another 38 constituencies are in the 90s and many…

Artist Jackie Morris says; ‘The language we use when it comes to our fellow species on this planet needs to change. Birds are not commodities to be exploited for sport, and the persecution of raptors and other wildlife in areas where shooting is practiced is appalling. The industrialisation of the ‘shoot’ has given rise to…