That’s the first 24 hours of this e-petition – and we have whizzed past 1000, 2000, 3000 and 4000 signatures. Thank you everyone! Almost every one of the 650 UK parliamentary constituencies has already got at least one signature registered in it – and the Calder Valley has 32. The map above is hours out…
Category: e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting
Humberstone Bank Farm – beyond nature
Yorkshire Water is making an interesting offer – help them improve water quality, water retention and carbon storage on their land while ‘working with the sporting interest’ on an upland farm north of Blubberhouses. Blubberhouses Moor in Yorkshire is mentioned in Inglorious (page 59) as the site where a stroppy rich man, Lord Walsingham, shot…
What a great start – thank you!
When I woke this morning I knew there was something I had to do – check on the number of signatures on the e-petition I launched yesterday. It was around 1pm yesterday that I noticed that the e-petition had gone live – I wasn’t expecting it to happen at the weekend. By the time I…
Chris Packham was the first…
Timing is everything – and so often a matter of luck! I had noticed that the 3000th post on this blog was coming up shortly but a quick, unplanned blog about Mountain Hares meant that when my third e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting went live a little while ago this announcement could occupy the…
You are in charge – stand a tip-toe
On Tuesday evening, as you know, I spoke in Glossop and one question that came up, which quite often comes up, is the question of the great power of the rich landowners to get their way. When a lady asks the question it is usually along the lines of ‘Won’t it be difficult to ban…