Grouse negligence ‘…the grouse-shooting debate revealed some MPs’ enduring contempt for the masses. An orchestrated procession of tame Tories waxed lyrical about the joys of wild shooting.’ ‘Charles Walker smeared the petitioner, conservationist Mark Avery‘ ‘E-petitions are supposed to reboot parliamentary democracy but, on the evidence of this farce, they are another kick in its…
Category: e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting
More driving and more thinking
I drove to North Wales on Wednesday and drove back on Thursday, and then I drove to Essex on Friday to talk to the Essex Birdwatching Society and then on to Hertfordshire on Friday night where on Saturday I was on an authors’ panel at a Badger Trust conference. So in four days I met…
Did you see these?
What others say about the ban driven grouse shooting campaign: The RSPB is wrong not to back a ban on driven grouse shooting – Nick Milton, Guardian Time for change: a comment on the parliamentary debate on the future of grouse shooting, Martin Harper’s blog Dishonourable members, Raptor Persecution UK Don’t dismiss the Public NGO,…
Driving and thinking
On Wednesday evening I gave a talk to the Bangor Bird Group in North Wales. There was a good crowd there and they were pretty stirred up after seeing the debate on Monday. No sign of any of them giving up. I hope I entertained and energised them (I think I may have done) but…
You did this…
shone a light on the scale of illegal raptor persecution in the UK uplands brought the damaging impacts of grouse moor management to the attention of the media and the British public had a lot of fun persuaded M&S three years in a row to reverse its decision to sell grouse meat in stores got…