Category: e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting

  Kerry McCarthy MP (Labour, Bristol East) says: ‘Only a minority of people choose to participate in the so-called “sport” of grouse shooting, which causes the unnecessary and cruel deaths of millions of game birds every year, but their hobby has an impact on us all. Moorland that is burnt or drained greatly increases the…

    Terry Pickford, raptor worker, says ‘I definitely support a ban of driven grouse shooting because of the obvious damage this so called fieldsport continues to cause to a wide variety of protected birds of prey on red grouse moorland. These remote heather regions located in the north of England are being managed in…

  Actor Peter Egan says: ‘I support a ban of driven grouse shooting because I hate all hunting and shooting of wild animals.  I’ve never seen a Hen Harrier, other than in photographs, they look like wonderful birds to me. A natural predator, they eat Red Grouse, Hen Harriers are literally being brutally wiped out…

  Chris Williamson MP (Labour, Derby North) says: ‘Grouse shooting is morally and environmentally unjustifiable and should therefore be banned.  It is responsible for the indiscriminate persecution of wildlife, including protected birds of prey, and the mismanagement of our uplands exacerbates flooding in towns and cities.‘   To join Chris Williamson, please sign Gavin Gamble’s…

  Support for intensive grouse shooting, as measured by numbers of signatures on a pro-grouse shooting e-petition, is concentrated in the richer areas of central London, such as Chelsea and Fulham, and is very sparse across the rest of the capital.  In contrast, opposition to driven grouse shooting is spread across the capital’s constituencies, with…