I’m looking forward to talking at the Ilkley Literature Festival on Saturday. Last weekend, to coincide with the opening of the heather burning season, the Ban Bloodsports on Ilkley Moor group staged a protest outside Bradford City Hall. Maybe I’ll meet some of them at my talk and they’ll be sitting next to the local…
Category: Grouse and harriers
Regulatory failure
There’s an excellent post today on the Raptor Persecution Scotland blog about what manner of things might be in any grouse meat that you eat. Watch out Henry! I wonder how much medicine from medicated grit gets into Hen Harriers, Peregrines and other wildlife through ingestion? Has anyone looked at that? Game meat, including…
The first 20,000 signatures
Our e-petition to ask the Westminster government to ban driven grouse shooting, reached 20,000 signatures last night. That took less than two and a half months. Last year, the similar e-petition took six and a half months to reach the same milestone. And remember, this has been done by you and me, and 19,998 others…
Let’s get a debate in parliament!
I’m grateful to the ‘TeamforNature’ (on Twitter @MMNNActionUK) for setting up a thunderclap in support of the idea of getting a debate in the Westminster parliament on the future of driven grouse shooting. You can add your name to this thunderclap if you have a Twitter, Facebook and/or tumblr social media account. Then, provided we…
Satellite tags
Defra doesn’t have a plan for Hen Harrier conservation – if it did then the deployment of satellite tags on a large scale by private individuals and wildlife NGOs would have to be part of it. Of course, we taxpayers have paid for satellite (and radio) tags to be deployed on a moderate scale for…