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,…
Category: BAN DRIVEN GROUSE SHOOTING
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…
What did Shania sing?
The RSPB really is in a pickle over its line on bird of prey persecution. Having welcomed the Hen Harrier inaction plan, welcomed the pathetic statement by the Moorland Association and disappointed many (except the Chief Exec of Songbird Survival) with its line on the Hen Harrier breeding season update, more and more people are…
Congratulations to Sir Ian Booo!tham
Sir Ian Booo!tham has been awarded the inaugural ‘Outstanding guns’ award by Fieldsports Magazine. This award ‘gives recognition to individuals in the world of game shooting who truly deserve it, for all the right reasons‘ apparently. The award has been invented because ‘the game shooting community must do all that it possibly can to ensure…
Guest blog – Kick the Butts out of Kinder Scout by Nick Moyes
Nick Moyes is former Senior Keeper of Natural History at Derby Museum; co-author of The Flora of Derbyshire, and technical advisor to the Derby Cathedral Peregrine Project, which he helped set up. He is currently campaigning to get The Sanctuary LNR restored by Derby City Council, and advises on biodiversity action plans across Lowland Derbyshire….
Kite attack!
The Daily Mail is edited by Paul Dacre who owns a grouse moor. Saturday saw a piece about a scourge of Red Kites attacking young girls and old ladies – men seem to be immune. There is a serious issue here and that is that artificial feeding of Red Kites has made them less…
The National Trust’s former shooting tenant, Mark Osborne
Mark Osborne, the exiting shooting tenant of the National Trust in the Peak District, is a very well-known name in shooting circles. He is not a nobody, he is someone for whom ‘failure is not an option’ according to Lord James Percy in Fieldsports magazine. Mr Osborne is prone to tell people that he is…
Hands off our Hen Harriers – picnic on the moors.
Are you holding the date of 25 June, midday, for a picnic on a grouse moor in north Yorkshire? I am. I’m looking forward to it. Apparently this picnic will be in a constituency which has more than 100 signatures on our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting, is in a National Park and is…
Moorland Association – would you trust this lot with your Hen Harriers?
The Moorland Association is the trade union for moorland owners and managers in England. Its membership must include most of the people from whose land 300+ pairs of Hen Harriers are missing because of illegal persecution. They must all have sleepless nights over this (particularly with more and more Hen Harriers being satellite tagged). The…