I think anyone looking at the landscape above would be hard-pressed to call it ‘natural’. It is drained and burned – and it has tracks running all the way through it. It’s the burning that creates that patchwork of different colours – patches of heather that were burned in different years according to a…
Category: e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting
Henry’s picnic – of course it rained
A group of 75+ met at Grimwith Reservoir car park yesterday to gather together to protest about the lack of Hen Harriers in the ununited-UK, in the uplands of England, in National Parks and in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. There was sun, there was gloom, there were midges and there was rain – a…
If you really want to have a go at the establishment…
If you really want to have a go at the establishment and you don’t really care how – then just sign this e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/125003 If you want to have a go at the establishment in a more thoughtful way then read it first and then sign it! https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/125003 If you…
What you think – rewilding and grouse shooting
Readers of this blog, and its author, are keen on rewilding (below)… …and not very keen on grouse shooting…. These two things are not completely interdependent of course, but less land given over to intensive grouse shooting would allow more chance of rewilding of our uplands. I’ll be writing more about this next week. But…
45,000
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Yesterday we passed another major milestone – 45,000 signatures. Our e-petition has plenty of momentum. In May we passed 34k, 35k, 36k, 37k and 38k signatures, but already in June we have passed 39k, 40k, 41k, 42k, 43k, 44k and 45k – how much further can we get before the end of this month? And…