Category: e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting

It’s less than two full weeks since Gavin Gamble launched his e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting.  It’s doing pretty well and I’ve slipped back into checking the progress of an e-petition every few hours (or even more frequently!). 123,077 signatures, our last total, seems a very, very long way away – but then it…

Heather burning in England is legal from 1 October to 15 April (far too late in my view) in upland areas – see rules here. It is the responsibility of local authorities to measure air quality – if I lived in an area where heather burning were common then I would ask the local authority…

Please sign Gavin Gamble’s e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting.      

  Gavin Gamble’s e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting has got off to a very good start. It’s already over 6500 signatures and there are only (at the time of writing yesterday) five constituencies (out of c650) which have no signatures;  three in Northern Ireland and two in London – we’ve seen this pattern before….

I gave two talks in Buckinghamshire last week – one to 6th formers at Ousedale School and the other to the Bucks Bird Club – I enjoyed both. Talking to the young people about being a biologist and conservationist is one way that I can, in a small way, put something back after a long…