Gavin Gamble approaches 25,000 signatures

Gavin Gamble’s e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting is fast approaching 25,000 signatures. Next milestone is 25,322 signatures – the number reached by the last pro-grouse shooting petition. Please sign here. Why not ask your partner, friend, workmates, neighbours to sign too?  Just send them the link to the petition with a few encouraging words…

The RSPB and licensing of grouse moors

In Martin Harper’s blog at the beginning of the week were embedded a few words of support for Ed Hutchings’s e-petition on licensing of grouse shooting.  These are the words: ‘For the past four years, we have argued that a system of licensing of driven grouse shooting is essential to help protect our amazing upland…

Update – we are 10,890 ahead

Here is an update on three e-petitions about grouse shooting: Gavin Gamble’s e-petition in favour of banning driven grouse shooting – 24,600+ signatures Jane Griggs’s e-petition supporting grouse shooting – 13,700+ signatures Ed Hutchings’s e-petition in favour of licensing grouse shooting – 1600+ signatures This is the mid-point of the Gamble e-petition – another three…

Telegraph gets ‘exclusive’ by reading month-old blog

The Daily Telegraph today. Findlay Wilde’s blog of 4 December.   Well done Findlay! You have made it to ‘activist’ in the national press – only a couple of steps to go to get to ‘eco-zealot’. An unnamed MP – what odds would you give that it was Simon Hart (ex chief exec and well-paid…

Grouse shooting in the Washington Post

If you care about wildlife law, protected habitats, people’s homes not being flooded, climate change and the water pollution then you’ll be labelled ‘a rabble of extremists and Jeremy Corbyn types living in the Islington echo-chamber‘. The Washington Post has run a piece on grouse shooting. Please support Gavin Gamble’s e-petition to ban driven grouse…