Standing up for Nature
When a man with a fairly posh accent says, on the BBC’s flagship morning news programme, ‘Any bird that gets in the way of that [the cash crop of grouse shooting] is annihilated‘ then it’s time to start thinking of selling your grouse moor before its value plummets. David Cobham was talking to John Humphreys…
This video of tweed-clad armed men repeatedly visiting a Marsh Harrier nest on a Yorkshire moor, released by the RSPB last week, is being investigated by the police. Let’s hope it is seen many more times than the 5000 so far – the RSPB needs to promote these hard-won pieces of evidence much more forcefully….
I know I mention Twitter a lot here, and some readers are completely familiar with it and others completely bemused. This little post will sort out which side of that divide you are on! BASC, the Bullying Aggressive Shooting Community (or something like that), suggested to their followers that they should take a selfie (photograph…
‘Encouraging a response from those who defend the status quo is important too. A victory is scored when your opponents are forced to debate issues they would rather leave ignored…‘ from Owen Jones, The Establishment. Well, there’s been a lot of that going on recently: Grouse shooting: half a million reasons why time’s up for…
It’s been a really bad few days for the grouse shooters – some of the wounds have been entirely self-inflicted and others have been because they don’t have much defence against the truth or the masses of the people. Let’s start with Findlay Wilde, now luxuriating on holiday somewhere near a mistnet in Portugal. His…