Let’s just stick with Hen Harriers for a while – I’ll come back to wider environmental issues next week. And as far as Hen Harriers and driven grouse shooting go – you can’t have both, you have to choose. Ever since the results of the first Langholm study (see Chapter 3 of Inglorious and here)…
Category: e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting
A plug for Gordon Yates
Many have commented on the magnificent images of Hen Harriers that I use on this blog – most of them are the work of the photographer Gordon Yates (who also wrote a Guest Blog here last year after the ‘mysterious’ disappearances of five male Hen Harriers from active nests in England). Here’s a link to…
Half-time!
Our e-petition to get a debate on the future of driven grouse shooting started on 20 March and ends on 20 September – so let’s call this half time. Have a sit down, suck on a lemon, put on a clean shirt, clean your studs, check your shin guards and it’s up and at ’em…
44,444
We are 50% through the time and 44% of the way to 100,000 signatures. Pretty good! Thank you all! See whether you can get someone new to sign this e-petition today, please. More on this tomorrow!
Hen Harriers in the Yorkshire Dales National Park (not)
Wouldn’t you love to be able to see a food pass by a pair of Hen Harriers in a National Park near you? The Yorkshire Dales National Park has much excellent habitat for Hen Harriers – it ought, with the adjacent Nidderdale AONB, to have at least a dozen nesting pairs. Since 2000, there should,…