Category: Grouse and harriers

Ian Botham deserves to be a winner again – and he deserves to win Birdwatch magazine’s guano award for environmental harm as part of the YFTB team. So please vote for him here. You’ll have to vote in each of the other categories too, but I bet you’ll find some familiar names and events to…

Now Then magazine features an article about grouse shooting and raptor persecution in the Peak District. And do remember that you can help the National Trust move rapidly away from intensive moorland management by signing this local petition.

Oropendola productions – good for them! Oropendola Productions and Playfuel recently delivered an interactive street game for the Manchester Science Festival which took place on the streets of the city in order to raise awareness of the impact and causes of flooding. Think escapes rooms meets crystal maze with a treasure hunt thrown in, all…

It’s certainly not my place to be setting out the RSPB’s position on driven grouse shooting but there have been signs, some public and some less obvious, that the RSPB is losing patience with driven grouse shooting and with Defra. Let’s just recognise that the RSPB has come a long and slightly difficult way since…

Rowan the Hen Harrier ‘was likely to have been shot’ – likely? That’s an odd phrase and it’s been bothering me (and others, I see). I tend to start from the supposition that all Hen Harriers are likely to be shot and have to keep telling myself that there are other perfectly natural causes of…