Category: e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting

  In Monday’s debate on the future of driven grouse shooting Conservative MPs trooped out in numbers to defend their so-called sport rather than to address the concerns of their constituents. ‘There’s a lot we need to do in this party of ours. Our base is too narrow and so, occasionally, are our sympathies. You…

On Monday afternoon and evening a Westminster Hall debate was held where UK MPs discussed the idea that driven grouse shooting should be banned because 123,077 people had signed an e-petition. The e-petition system was set up by Parliament so that the people could bring matters about which they felt strongly to the attention of…

This post was written at the weekend – before whatever happened yesterday at the debate on the future of grouse shooting happened. I never really believed that we would get this debate until we were in the 90,000 signatures in early August 2016.  But we have. And the way that people look at driven grouse…

Dear Therese Coffey I have already covered four areas relevant to the debate on driven grouse shooting that takes place this afternoon in previous blogs today (wildlife crime, conservation impacts, public opinion, wider environmental impacts) but the last one is that of economic value. Defra has relied on figures provided by the grouse shooting industry…

Dear Therese Coffey Driven grouse shooting depends on intensive moorland management – which has intensified in recent years see here and here). The primary management actions involve burning of heather, drainage and burning of blanket bogs, culling of native predators and medicating the Red Grouse to combat the impacts of parasites and diseases. These impacts…