Friday evening, Saturday, Sunday and this morning were spent at WOMAD in Wiltshire – I was doing some (very little) work there (about which, more tomorrow), but with Henry the Hen Harrier and some other friends several thousand leaflets were handed out plugging the e-petition. WOMAD was great! And we chatted to some great people…
Category: BAN DRIVEN GROUSE SHOOTING
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On Thursday last week, it now seems like a long time ago, I drove to the RSPB nature reserve at Geltsdale where one of only three English pairs of Hen Harriers is nesting this year. My chat with Andrew Gilruth (GWCT) and Charlotte Smith (presenter), and presumably our waving of our hands at midges and…
Join the thunderclap – almost last chance
If you have an account on Twitter, Facebook and/or tumblr then please consider joining this thunderclap to raise awareness of the plight of Hen Harriers and of our e-petition to get the future of the uplands debated in the Westminster parliament.
What’s not to like?
This is a nice drop of beer and is supporting a good company and a good cause. And it’s really irritating a bunch of unpleasant shooters too.
Leaflets – update.
I’m very grateful to all those who have offered to deliver leaflets promoting the e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting. You are a wonderful bunch! Demand for leaflets has exceeded supply (and funds) and so for now if you haven’t heard that you are getting some leaflets then you are on the waiting list. Over…
LACS crowdfunder to support the e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting
The League Against Cruel Sports has been a great supporter of the e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting. Thanks to a lot of people, including LACS, our e-petition has amassed over 65,000 signatures and stands a good chance of reaching 100,000 – and triggering a debate in parliament. But we need a big push over…
Four days – who will win?
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Do you remember being offered the chance to guess the total that we would reach by midnight on the 31 July – that’s Sunday? Here are the guesses (closest gets a signed copy of the new paperback edition of Inglorious): 51495 Robert Kingsbury-Barker 51798 Roger Little 53471 Sue 54356 Peter Swallow 54731 notso 55333 Steven…
The Shooter’s Lament by John Cantelo
Shooter’s Lament We grouse shooters have some gall, You cannot trust us, not at all. Our chaps in Defra raised the hope, That brood meddling would soft soap, The likes of Rory and Ms Truss. Whilst we got on with little fuss, With the business we like the best, Ridding moors of every damn pest:…
RSPB humming Shania Twain
The RSPB today turned its back on the failing and doomed Defra Hen Harrier plan – and quite right too. Humming a Shania Twain song, ‘Dance with the one that brought you‘ the RSPB turned its back on the grouse moor owners and came back to us. Thank you RSPB. Where does that leave the…
Therese Coffey left to pick up the pieces
The outgoing Defra ministers of Liz Truss and Rory Stewart, most particularly the latter, bear much of the responsibility for the shambles that is the government approach to Hen Harrier conservation in England. After today’s withdrawal of the RSPB from the hopeless Defra Hen Harrier Inaction Plan – because it is already clear that it…