40,000! Thank you! You and I are making all sorts of people sit up and take notice. We are about 40% of the way through the time and 40% of the way to the target of 100,000 signatures. Does that make you feel optimistic or pessimistic about getting to 100,000? Well, as far as I’m…
Category: e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting
39,000
Yesterday we reached 39,000 signatures – that was quite a slow 1,000 signatures. Although that last 1,000 took 11 days, let’s just remember that last time around there were two periods of a month which only produced 1,000 signatures. We are still whizzing along. And already today we are half way to the next thousand…
Someone mentioned the pole traps but I think they got away with it…
This appeared on the website of the former newspaper The Independent yesterday evening. Well done Guy Shorrock for some excellent quotes which I hope will be carried forward into the RSPB statement on Monday. The GWCT now take over from the Moorland Association in having given the most fatuous quote of the year on raptor…
Shhhhh! Don’t mention the poletraps…
It’s all very quiet isn’t it? Considering how many organisations are falling over themselves to spout their enormous concern about wildlife crime against birds of prey on grouse moors when it comes to providing a solution for the grouse moor managers (poor things!) there is very little discussion of this admission of guilt by a…
Looking forward to talking in Oxford
I’m looking forward to talking in the Oxford Festival of Nature next week. I’ll be talking about…guess what?…why we should ban driven grouse shooting and why the residents of Oxford should do some catching up (per capita) with the residents of Cambridge in signing our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting. Cambridge 110 signatures…