The week started badly with a flaccid statement from the ‘campaigning’ RSPB but ended well with firm action from the staid NT. Readers of this blog may well be up to date with many aspects of the NT’s decision to terminate a shooting let through the excellent Raptor Persecution UK blog or through Martin Harper’s…
Category: e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting
Funding update – thank you!
Thanks to your generosity we have raised £2500 for the campaign to ban driven grouse shooting. Any further contributions would be very welcome – and it is likely that I will pass the hat around again later in the summer as we race towards the finishing line of 20 September. We aren’t, remember, even half…
41,000
Another milestone reached. Many thanks to all who have signed and supported, and huge thanks to Stewart Abbott for the thunderclap yesterday which is giving signatures a boost and pushed us over the 41,000 mark. Also a big ‘THANKS!’ to Natalie Bennett who joined that thunderclap and swelled its social reach. The West Country continues…
Thunderclap at 5pm – please sign up
The thunderclap organised by Stewart Abbott, who is also organising the Peak District Hen Harrier Day event, is being broadcast at 5pm today. If you have a Twitter, Facebook or tumblr account then please sign up to it (I wonder how many readers of this blog are on tumblr?). I wonder whether that will deliver…
The alternative Countryfile interview.
On Sunday Countryfile sank lower than even I thought was possible with a hopeless piece about grouse moors. Here is the link and the piece starts at about 22 minutes into the programme. Presumably, in the interests of BBC balance, Springwatch will be showing this image of how Mountain Hares are looked after on grouse…