If you are running a campaign then your aim is to achieve change in the world, change on the ground, change in reality. One of the most direct, though not particularly easy, routes to achieving widespread change is through influencing the action of governments as they control laws, regulations, enforcement, taxation and government spending. Petitions…
Category: Grouse and harriers
Debate on grouse shooting 1
The future of driven grouse shooting was debated on Monday afternoon and there is plenty to say about that debate but I’ll give myself some time to think about it and let the dust settle. I’ll return to the subject, in some detail, on Monday and later next week. Meanwhile, if you didn’t watch the…
What will the Labour government do on Monday?
Today’s RSPB report, Hen Harriers in the firing line, is a timely reminder ahead of Monday’s debate in the Westminster parliament on the future of driven grouse shooting that birds of prey, in this report Hen Harriers, are systematically and illegally killed on grouse moors so that the those enjoying the hobby of shooting Red…
RSPB press release – Number of Hen Harriers killed or missing reaches new high
Over the past five years, record numbers of Hen Harriers have been killed or have gone missing according to a new report from the RSPB. Most of these incidents have occurred on or near grouse moors in northern England. The RSPB is calling on the Westminster Government to introduce licensing of grouse shooting in…
A letter to my MP, Lee Barron
Dear Lee, I am writing to ask you to attend a Westminster Hall debate on the afternoon of 30 June where a parliamentary petition will be debated as the petition gained over 100,000 signatures. It is a petition close to my heart, indeed I was one of the three directors of the campaigning group, Wild…