I woke a little while ago to find that our e-petition, calling for a ban on driven grouse shooting (in England), passed a major milestone during the night. 20,000 signatures! Thank you to all who have signed and thank you to those people, mostly individuals rather than organisations, who have promoted this e-petition since it…
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Charles Moore shoots grouse
It’s funny, isn’t it, how many journalists who criticise the RSPB are shooters. And it’s funny how they somehow forget to mention the fact that they are shooters or involved in shooting when they write their criticisms of the RSPB’s opposition to people associated with shooting breaking wildlife law. We’ve had the case of Magnus…
Rallying
When you have as enjoyable time as I did on Tuesday at the Rally for Nature, it’s difficult not to keep thinking back to it. It’s also wrong not to keep thinking back to it. Here are just a few thoughts and a few photographs. Really good to see Charlie Moores, one of the…
Info v misinfo
So, that’s the end of the Red Grouse shooting season for another year. One year, not so far away, it will end for good. Last week the Moorland Association and BASC published their ‘misinfographic’ on grouse shooting – the one about which I have contacted the ASA. This week, the League Against Cruel Sports produced their…
If nothing happens, something will happen
It seems like the grouse shooters are in a corner and they are not sure what to do next. So they are falling back on the tactic that has served them well up until now – do nothing, give no ground, wait and see. Grouse shooting is in a corner – a corner of its…