A group of 75+ met at Grimwith Reservoir car park yesterday to gather together to protest about the lack of Hen Harriers in the ununited-UK, in the uplands of England, in National Parks and in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. There was sun, there was gloom, there were midges and there was rain – a…
Category: BAN DRIVEN GROUSE SHOOTING
If you really want to have a go at the establishment…
If you really want to have a go at the establishment and you don’t really care how – then just sign this e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/125003 If you want to have a go at the establishment in a more thoughtful way then read it first and then sign it! https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/125003 If you…
What you think – rewilding and grouse shooting
Readers of this blog, and its author, are keen on rewilding (below)… …and not very keen on grouse shooting…. These two things are not completely interdependent of course, but less land given over to intensive grouse shooting would allow more chance of rewilding of our uplands. I’ll be writing more about this next week. But…
You can’t have both – you have to choose.
Let’s just stick with Hen Harriers for a while – I’ll come back to wider environmental issues next week. And as far as Hen Harriers and driven grouse shooting go – you can’t have both, you have to choose. Ever since the results of the first Langholm study (see Chapter 3 of Inglorious and here)…
Where are they?
Birdtrack provides this interesting facility where one can look at the reporting rates of any species this year compared with the long term average. Reporting rates are the proportion of complete bird lists (for a visit to a location) that contain the relevant species. The data from this year ought to be comparable with the…
Request for film location
I keep being asked by film companies where they could go to film driven grouse shooting or obtain existing footage to use. Any grouse moors out there wishing to reveal the glories of the Inglorious 12th? Anyone know of locations where driven grouse shooting could be filmed from rights of way or the public highway?…
M&S has gone very quiet on grouse meat sales
Is M&S really going to sell Red Grouse meat in its stores this year? Does M&S really have an industry-leading Code of Practice? And if they do why won’t they share it with their customers who have asked? Doesn’t sound as though they are very proud of it? Will M&S name the estate(s) from which…
Hen Harriers in the Yorkshire Dales National Park (not)
Wouldn’t you love to be able to see a food pass by a pair of Hen Harriers in a National Park near you? The Yorkshire Dales National Park has much excellent habitat for Hen Harriers – it ought, with the adjacent Nidderdale AONB, to have at least a dozen nesting pairs. Since 2000, there should,…
Brian May supports e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting
The driven grouse shooting industry may find itself caught in a landslide with no escape from reality when Dr Brian May supports our cause. Join the thunderclap and sign the e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting.
It’s not a picnic for Hen Harriers this year
Next week, on Saturday 25 June, whether we have voted Brexit or Remain, there will be a Hen Harrier rally to mark this year’s virtual absence of nesting Hen Harriers from the English uplands. Full details will appear here and elsewhere next Wednesday but we have now been told by the organisers that it will…