The shooting industry (BASC this time): Heather burning good for biodiversity says study. A consortium of 50+ environmental and wildlife NGOs in the State of Nature report (p26): ‘In large areas, uplands are also subject to burning rotations as part of grouse moor management. This can result in heather dominating blanket bogs and has greatly…
Category: BAN DRIVEN GROUSE SHOOTING
Chris Packham interviews me about our e-petition
We are in the last few days of our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting. Every signature is valuable and you only have today, tomorrow and Tuesday to sign. How about signing now, please?
Goyt Valley peregrine – an update
The shooting of a young Peregrine Falcon in the Goyt Valley on the Derbyshire/Staffordshire border has been well-covered by our big brother blog, Raptor Persecution UK (see here). Again – they broke the news of a raptor killing – they do that a lot. But there has been follow-up information on the BBC and in…
And, David, if you have a spare £10.5m…
And so we say farewell to David Cameron the former Prime Minister and now former MP for Witney – I wonder whether the constituents who wrote to him about grouse shooting will ever get a reply? Mr Cameron will be remembered for accidentally getting us out of the EU when he himself wanted to stay…
The APPG on Shooting (and Conservation)
At the second time of asking the Public Enquiry Point for the APPG for Shooting (and Conservation) came up with a list of its members. Thank you. It would be wrong necessarily to expect that every person on this list is an active, keen and accomplished shooter of wildlife, but some certainly are. The members…
Chris Packham interviews Paul Irving
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Chris Packham interviews Paul Irving – an experienced raptor worker in the north of England. To add your name to the e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting please sign here.
Quick thoughts from the Sheffield conference
I spent Thursday evening, Friday and Saturday morning with a disparate bunch of supporters and opponents to banning driven grouse shooting at the Sheffield conference on raptors, peatlands and the uplands. It was valuable in all sorts of ways, not least in meeting some blog readers and supporters whom I rarely see (for some of…
Driven grouse shooting – your money.
Your taxes help to pay for driven grouse shooting Please sign the e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting.
The All Party Parliamentary Group on Shooting (and Conservation)
I’ve been wondering which members of parliament are likely to speak in favour of driven grouse shooting in the debate on the subject. Their constituents might well want to give them some Firm Briefing on the facts of the matter and to give them the views of the people who elected them. The All-Party Parliamentary…
Allow me a moment of pride – please? Then back to work!
I’m rather proud of this – many people have got us this far – but only I get this email. OK – that’s enough feeling pleased – lots of hard work ahead! Let’s see how high we can get the signature total by midnight on 20 September (two weeks today) – get all your friends…