This week

If you are in London on Friday evening, and I’ve heard that there is little to do in big cities on Friday evenings, then come along and hear me talk at the Birkbeck Free Lecture series about why we should ban driven grouse shooting and why you might want to sign Gavin Gamble’s e-petition on…

Upside down and inside out.

Yesterday evening the BBC regional programme Inside Out for the East Midlands and Yorkshire featured a very good piece on driven grouse shooting.  Well done them!  Here is the link and the piece is the first one after the general introductions. You’ll hear some familiar voices and see some familiar faces: Tim Birch from Derbyshire…

Here we go again…

I really hope that this e-petition by Gavin Gamble (whom I don’t know personally) crashes through the 10,000 signatures mark very quickly and then heads rapidly past 20k, 30k, 40k, 50k, 60k, 70k, 80k, 90k and 100k signatures. It’s a long way – but it’s feasible and I’ll be promoting this e-petition as if it…

This is interesting!

  Somebody, Gavin Gamble, has set up a new e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting which is being considered by the Petitions Committee!  Looks quite classy!  

Hen Harriers on WatO

  If you were listening to the World at One today (starting at 38 minutes into piece) you will have heard a long piece on Hen Harriers. Well done WatO!  And well done RSPB (especially Ian Thomson and Blanaid Denman). The bird in question looks like these images by Gordon Yates – super bird isn’t…