I’m looking forward to talking in the Oxford Festival of Nature next week. I’ll be talking about…guess what?…why we should ban driven grouse shooting and why the residents of Oxford should do some catching up (per capita) with the residents of Cambridge in signing our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting. Cambridge 110 signatures…
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Thank you to all who gave generously in response to yesterday’s request for support to enable us to publicise the e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting. Every pound helps! Thank you. Your donation will be spent to publicise the campaign and e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting in the following ways: design, printing and postage…
Poletraps on the Yorkshire Dales grouse moors – caution!
In a blog post that should change the course of the summer, the RSPB reveals a case of three poletraps being placed on a grouse moor in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. What the RSPB says: Read it all here, but here’s a summary. Three set pole traps were found on a grouse moor in…
Would you buy me a pint, please?
I bet you would! This one looks nice – see more about it here. Instead of buying me a pint please consider making a small-ish, pint-sized (though gallon-sized would be fine too), donation to the campaign to ban driven grouse shooting. Your donation will be spent to publicise the campaign and e-petition to ban driven…
Thunderclap
Stewart Abbott has started a thunderclap to promote the e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting. It’s already well-supported (thank you all!) but everyone who joins it helps to spread the word and recruit more supporters. If you are active on Twitter, Facebook or tumblr then please consider adding your name to this thunderclap and that…
A welcome move north of the border
I’m very pleased to hear that preparations are well under way to start a petition aimed at the Scottish parliament to ban driven grouse shooting. This would be very welcome and just as Scotland has strongly supported my/our e-petition aimed at the Westminster parliament then I will certainly promote a similar vehicle in Scotland. Watch…
Bird Fair – Friday debate on driven grouse shooting.
Are you coming to the Bird Fair in August? Come on the Friday and you can attend a debate on whether we should ban driven grouse shooting with myself and the leader of the Green Party, Natalie Bennett on one side and a representative of the GWCT on the other with, we very much hope,…
Thank you Steve!
I am grateful to Steve Ormerod for his guest blog of yesterday. It was good of him to respond, as he did – he didn’t have to at all. As Steve wrote, the RSPB and I share almost completely common ground on the problems as we see them. Maybe we differ here or there, but…
Guest blog by RSPB Chair of Council, Prof Steve Ormerod
Mark, As I promised, I’m responding to your questions and challenges set out in your earlier blog. You regularly and accurately point out that we are all basically after the same thing: we a future for England’s moors and hills that is free from the illegal killing of birds of prey and where land management…
M&S getting a pasting on social media #spiritofsummer
I’ve not seen the industry-leading Code of Practice that underpins M&S’s belief that they can sell grouse meat this year – has anyone? I’ve not heard a thing from M&S – has anyone? I’m not convinced that I should be shopping at M&S – are you?