Category: Grouse and harriers

  Captions so far:   And how long have you been trying to polish it?   Keep the rest of that dead harrier behind your back till this guy with the camera has buggered off !!   Dare we ask how the negotiations are progressing Minister? Well I’m not allowed to say too much…but basically…

Driven grouse shooting depends on widespread, systematic and illegal killing of protected wildlife.  The original Langholm study showed that raptors, particularly Hen Harriers and Peregrines, are perfectly capable of taking a sufficient toll of Red Grouse before 12 August that there won’t necessarily be enough left to provide the profits to support several gamekeepers’ salaries. …

Whether it be Brexit or throwing missiles around the northern Pacific there comes a time when people have to sit down and talk things through.  So might it be for driven grouse shooting? I have to say that there has been so much talking that it is difficult to imagine quite what would come out…

Curiouser and curiouser! The story so far; Ian Botham claims that there is work done by Newcastle and Durham Universities which shows that there are birds on grouse moors, but Newcastle University researchers won’t release the report as the analysis isn’t completed and the report was just for the funders of the study. Who were…

Following this, this and this, I have asked Natural England this: On 10 July I asked ‘Has NE consented culling of Lesser Black-backed Gull in the Bowland Fells SSSI this year?’   On 9 August, after turning this into an EIR request (Request 3929), you used Regulation 12 (5)(B) – Administration of Justice to justify…