You may remember that the Defra response to Gavin Gamble’s e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting referred in an alarming way to control of problem species. I asked Defra what they meant and have only just (yesterday) received a response. Here it is: Dear Dr Avery, Thank you for your email of 27 November about…
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RSPB members signing up for licensing
The RSPB has used its campaign email to encourage signatures for Ed Hutchings’s e-petition in favour of licensing of grouse shooting. This is good to see. This has pushed the signature total over 4000 so it’s heading upwards at a reasonable pace and looks set to double its numbers of yesterday morning by close of…
We are 11,400 ahead
Here is an update on three e-petitions about grouse shooting: Gavin Gamble’s e-petition in favour of banning driven grouse shooting – c26,115 signatures Jane Griggs’s e-petition supporting grouse shooting – c14,714 signatures Ed Hutchings’s e-petition in favour of licensing grouse shooting – c2,390 signatures Last week saw the ‘Gamble-ban’ e-petition adding another 570 signatures and…
Guest blog – Driven Grouse Shooting on Borrowed Time by RSPB chair Kevin Cox
Kevin Cox was appointed Chair of RSPB Council in October 2017, having previously served on Council from 2011-2016. He has been a Council member and trustee of World Land Trust for the past 12 years, as well as Chair of its trading company. He helped Birdlife Bolivia set up a protected area for the critically-endangered…
Brood meddling in the Guardian
Patrick Barkham in the Guardian: Conservationists say government scheme, aimed at placating grouse moor land owners who object to the birds breeding on their land, will not boost numbers of the endangered birds. There’s a good quote from the RSPB but we are all wondering what the RSPB will actually do now. There’s a very…