Category: e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting

Gavin Gamble’s e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting keeps making significant progress. Highlights: Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey approaches 100 signatures – next week? The number of constituencies with 50+ signatures has jumped from 18 to 26 in the last week. Foyle and Barking remain the only two UK constituencies without a single signature Here…

Gavin Gamble’s e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting has had another good week – it passed 14,000 signatures and is now closer to 15,000.  Well done! It is not yet a third of its way through its lifetime but it’s getting close to that.   Having passed 10,000 signatures and prompted an inadequate and disappointing…

Gavin Gamble’s e-petition has already achieved something – it has shown us that Defra gives not a fig about wildlife crime.  That may not surprise many people but it is a useful stake in the ground. I know that many people are suffering from petition fatigue (and I have as much cause to feel that…

Gavin Gamble’s e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting now stands at over 13,000 signatures and it has now had a poor government response (see here and here). Here are the leading constituencies so far – many of them are old friends (all with 50+ signatures): Inverness, Badenoch and Strathspey, Drew Hendry MP, 87 signatures Thirsk…

  ‘Targeted control of problem species is only one part of a complex mix of factors that can influence populations’ Defra response to Gavin Gamble’s e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting.   This is what targetted control looks like in twentieth century UK:   Please sign the e-petition to which Defra was replying to show…