The shooting industry (BASC this time): Heather burning good for biodiversity says study. A consortium of 50+ environmental and wildlife NGOs in the State of Nature report (p26): ‘In large areas, uplands are also subject to burning rotations as part of grouse moor management. This can result in heather dominating blanket bogs and has greatly…
Category: e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting
Chris Packham interviews me about our e-petition
We are in the last few days of our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting. Every signature is valuable and you only have today, tomorrow and Tuesday to sign. How about signing now, please?
Driven grouse shooting campaign – a timeline and how you can help
We have entered the last three days of our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting. Overnight we passed another mini-milestone: at 122,399. Can you work it out? Answer at foot of page. I must mention that the Ribble Valley constituency reached 500 signatures yesterday – a tremendous achievement of community engagement. Thank you all! The…
Goyt Valley peregrine – an update
The shooting of a young Peregrine Falcon in the Goyt Valley on the Derbyshire/Staffordshire border has been well-covered by our big brother blog, Raptor Persecution UK (see here). Again – they broke the news of a raptor killing – they do that a lot. But there has been follow-up information on the BBC and in…
And, David, if you have a spare £10.5m…
And so we say farewell to David Cameron the former Prime Minister and now former MP for Witney – I wonder whether the constituents who wrote to him about grouse shooting will ever get a reply? Mr Cameron will be remembered for accidentally getting us out of the EU when he himself wanted to stay…