Standing up for Nature
Jon Dunn, birder and author, says: ‘There’s nothing I’d like more than to see a ban implemented on driven grouse shooting in Britain. Let’s not mince our words – it’s a blood-sport, where people kill wild animals for fun. But setting the immorality of that aside for a moment, it’s a rural industry with blood on…
Harry Huyton, Director of One Kind, says: ‘Predator control, prescribed burning, disease control… these professional-sounding terms are used to give credibility to intensive grouse moor management and to obfuscate the grim reality: legal and illegal killing of native wildlife, landscape-scale burning, and mass-medication as though the grouse were being intensively farmed. For the past two…
Alan Davies and Ruth Miller are birdwatching guides who once held the world record for seeing the most species of birds in a calendar year (Ruth still does hold the female record!). Alan says ‘Our moorlands should be a place where we can enjoy our native wildlife, Driven…
Cartoonist Paul Thomas says: ‘I’m against driven grouse shoots because of the grotesque cruelty that is being dished out in the name of ‘sport’. Anyone defending it is talking out of their butts.’ To join Paul Thomas, please sign Gavin Gamble’s e-petition which calls for a ban on driven grouse shooting.
Nick Miles, actor, says: ‘I want driven grouse shooting to be banned because I see its impacts in the area where I live. This picture was taken a short walk from where I live in Wensleydale, surrounded by grouse moors, within the Yorkshire Dales National Park. I can, and do, walk for hours, days, weeks, without…