Category: BAN DRIVEN GROUSE SHOOTING
The Hen Harrier thunderclap
It may be as recently as a year ago I’d never heard of a social media thunderclap. What it is, is this. If you have an account on social media (eg Twitter) you can send out messages which might be seen by all the people that ‘follow’ you. A social media thunderclap is where lots …
Hen Harrier Day – one week away
Hen Harrier Day is a week away! Hundreds of people will be gathering in three places across the north of England a week today to express their support for the threatened Hen Harrier. If you can’t make it to any of those events – and the Peak District one is full to capacity – then…
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The latest in the series of BAWC podcasts ahead of Hen Harrier Day (it’s difficult to keep up!) is a fascinating interview with Andrew Gilruth of the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust. You should listen to it here. I don’t know Andrew Gilruth, as far as I recall we’ve never met, but I was very…
And now from AA to RSPB
No, not those nice people who fix your car by the side of the road, not those nice people who help you give up the booze, but those people, who sent me thousands of postcards disapproving, in no uncertain terms, of the RSPB’s position on culling Ruddy Ducks many years ago – Animal Aid. Animal…
A good week for the friends of the Hen Harrier
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It’s difficult to keep up – there’s so much going on: Severn Trent say ‘yes’ to Hen Harrier Day in Peak District. Hen Harrier Day in Peak District reaches capacity – any more attendees will jam the car parks… August Birdwatch has ‘Stop killing our Harriers’ on cover. M&S shelve plans to sell Red…
Does driven grouse shooting rely on criminal activity?
There are many reasons to be opposed to the intensive management of our uplands to provide high-cost days shooting. But let us set aside the arguments on water quality, destruction of blanket blogs, carbon loss and the scale of legal killing of wildlife, and think only of the illegal killing of birds of prey –…
NEWS: M&S drop grouse sales in response to threatened boycott
Ben Webster in The Times: Game Over: M&S takes grouse off the shelves after boycott threat. M&S won’t sell grouse this year and tests new code for grouse moors after boycott threat http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/environment/article4156994.ece … We did that! Consumer power. Well done M&S!! I’ll be shopping with you again later today. And we’ll be watching you carefully…
Another man’s blog
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This is a link to an excellent post on Chris Townsend’s excellent blog. What he describes is the Scottish version of Walshaw Moor and the industrialisation of the north of England’s hills. Sign this e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting in England. I hope Chris will write a Guest Blog for here soon.
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Bob Elliot, Head of Investigations at the RSPB, is the latest to be interviewed ahead of Hen Harrier Day. His interview is available to hear on the BAWC soundcloud ‘Without doubt there is widespread illegal persecution of Hen Harriers’ ‘If someone’s intent on killing them, then the chances of us being in the right…