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:…
Category: BAN DRIVEN GROUSE SHOOTING
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…
Well done RSPB!
Today the RSPB has withdrawn its support from the Defra Hen Harrier Plan. Well done them! Martin Harper explains in his blog that the voluntary approach (to abiding by the law!) has failed. Essentially the RSPB is saying that they do not trust the grouse shooters and have no confidence that the words they speak…
RSPB statement just published
This statement has just appeared on Martin Harper’s blog – analysis and comment very soon.
The latest Packham video on driven grouse shooting
This is the latest in the series of videos by Chris Packham asking people to sign the e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting. This short video discusses the damage to ecosystem services done by all that burning and draining of our hills just so that a few people can shoot Red Grouse for fun. …
Dear Minister
Dear Minister Welcome to your new role in Defra following in the rather small footsteps of Rory Stewart. It is to be hoped that you will be able to do more good for wildlife and the environment than your predecessor. You have a wide range of jobs to do but may I point you in…
M&S – signs of cracking?
There was a piece in yesterday’s Sunday Herald where Rob Edwards asked M&S whether they would answer any of the questions that we have been asking them – and they wouldn’t. M&S are getting it so, so, so wrong. If you started believing that they couldn’t be doing anything wrong in selling grouse meat you…
M&S in the news for planning to sell high-lead grouse meat
Chris Packham’s video which asks M&S not to sell grouse meat shot with lead in their stores, stating that he will boycott M&S if they do, and asking people to sign the petition to ban driven grouse shooting, has made the news. Perhaps for readers of this blog, the most interesting piece of the…
Game-licensing for Scotland
A new petition has been launched in Scotland – calling for licensing of game estates. The name on the petition is the leading light of the Scottish Raptor Study Groups, the inestimable Logan Steele, and this e-petition does put large emphasis on the impacts of gamebird shooting, of any species of game, on birds of…