In their little booklet, the GWCT address five areas that they say are commonly-heard criticisms of driven grouse shooting. This week I’ll deal with each of them. The GWCT correctly identify this as an area of criticism ‘There is illegal persecution of raptors by grouse moor keepers‘ but go on to use the ‘few bad…
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Heather Trust seeks new Director
Simon Thorp is standing down as Director of the Heather Trust after doing the job for 15 years. The fact that most readers of this blog won’t have heard of the Heather Trust is a testament to the fact that the Heather Trust hasn’t been anything like as daft as many other landownery shootingish uplandful…
Use of lead shot as an Operation Likely to Damage
A response to an information request to Natural England. So, which upland SSSIs on blanket bogs ought to have ‘Use of lead shot’ as an OLD? Any ideas?
The Moorland Imbalance (2)
In their little booklet, the GWCT address five areas that they say are commonly-heard criticisms of driven grouse shooting. This week I’ll deal with each of them. GWCT say that it is claimed that ‘Heather burning contributes to the release of greenhouse gases because it release carbon dioxide‘ and attempt to rebut this by quoting…
The Moorland Imbalance (1)
In their little booklet, the GWCT address five areas that they say are commonly-heard criticisms of driven grouse shooting. This week I’ll deal with each of them. GWCT say that it is claimed that ‘Conservation organisations want to ban it‘. This is what is called a straw man – it’s a device for avoiding the…
Book review – The Moorland Balance by GWCT
I bought this slim volume to see whether there was anything new in it. It’s a fascinating read, as much for what it neglects as for what it says. For £8.95 (+P&P) you don’t get many words – 56 pages including lots of decent photographs, a list of references, an advert for the GWCT…
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A fun evening in Chesterfield
Yesterday evening I headed off to Chesterfield to talk to a local group of the Derbyshire Wildlife Trust. It was a fun evening and it’s good to talk in or near upland areas where the issues are local ones. There was a good turn out of people and I was speaking in a church hall…
Meanwhile in Scotland…
DEFRA is in denial over the ills of driven grouse shooting – they haven’t even made it to base camp yet and admitted that wildlife crime is out of control on English grouse moors. Without accepting the problem, and without accepting it as their problem, we can’t expect any action from the grouse shooter’s moll…
Labour on driven grouse shooting – shhhhhhhhh!
The English MP who is the Hen Harrier champion is Angela Smith, MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge. She has, in the past, been an outspoken critic of killing of birds of prey, especially in her own Peak District constituency. Angela was also one of very few non-Conservative MPs to speak in the Westminster Hall debate…