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.
Category: BAN DRIVEN GROUSE SHOOTING
This is ludicrous and funny
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…
The RSPB and driven grouse shooting
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…
Likely lads
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…
RSPB getting tough?
There are two recent RSPB blogs which are well worth a read – aren’t they all, always? Martin Harper’s blog is pretty outspoken as these quotes will make clear (but please read it all): it was a deeply frustrating debate – especially to the 123,000 that called for a ban and of course those seeking…
Golden Eagles on a weak thermal
There ought to be a lot more Golden Eagles in the UK and the results of the most recent survey (2015) show that there are more than in 2003 so that’s good news. There are 508 pairs of Golden Eagles in Scotland which represents an increase of 15% which isn’t bad at all and is…
Rory Stewart – this one is in your constituency
Rory Stewart has moved on from Defra but his legacy of inactivity on wildlife crime lives on and its impacts are manifest in his own constituency. A case of dead birds coming home to roost? I didn’t have any takers for my 100/1 bet that Rowan died of natural causes. It’s hardly surprising. He couldn’t…
From the Guardian
Grouse negligence ‘…the grouse-shooting debate revealed some MPs’ enduring contempt for the masses. An orchestrated procession of tame Tories waxed lyrical about the joys of wild shooting.’ ‘Charles Walker smeared the petitioner, conservationist Mark Avery‘ ‘E-petitions are supposed to reboot parliamentary democracy but, on the evidence of this farce, they are another kick in its…
More driving and more thinking
I drove to North Wales on Wednesday and drove back on Thursday, and then I drove to Essex on Friday to talk to the Essex Birdwatching Society and then on to Hertfordshire on Friday night where on Saturday I was on an authors’ panel at a Badger Trust conference. So in four days I met…
Did you see these?
What others say about the ban driven grouse shooting campaign: The RSPB is wrong not to back a ban on driven grouse shooting – Nick Milton, Guardian Time for change: a comment on the parliamentary debate on the future of grouse shooting, Martin Harper’s blog Dishonourable members, Raptor Persecution UK Don’t dismiss the Public NGO,…