In a breathtaking example of arrogance, Defra has merely cut and pasted their response to a previous e-petition as their response to our current e-petition calling for a ban on driven grouse shooting. All the things that were wrong with their previous response are wrong with their current response. We know that ministers sign off…
Category: BAN DRIVEN GROUSE SHOOTING
Bit of a round up
I’ll be at Housmans bookshop this evening at 7pm Fineshade Wood features in this week’s Private Eye the NFU voted to be pro Remain in the EU referendum the Defra Press Office has not got back to me with an answer on whether ministers sign off responses to e-petitions my MP has not yet got…
Looking forward to be at Housmans tomorrow evening
Housmans Bookshop describes itself as London’s premier radical bookshop and so I’m expecting to feel at home when I talk there tomorrow evening about why we should ban driven grouse shooting. 7pm, 5 Caledonian Road and entrance is £3 (redeemable against any purchases). And maybe we’ll get some new signatures on our e-petition to ban…
Dear Minister
Dear Minister You ought to be thinking of replying to our latest e-petition calling for a ban on driven grouse shooting – we have now been waiting for over three weeks for a response. In that period, though, the e-petition has gained another 17,000+ signatures. You should be aware that the campaign to end driven…
25,000 signatures to ban driven grouse shooting!
You are all amazing – thank you for such support for this e-petition to create a better future for our uplands and their wildlife and people. 25,000 signatures in less than four weeks – how amazing is that? On the very first of these e-petitions we reached 22,399 signatures in over 10 months. I thought…
Most Scots want a ban on driven grouse shooting
In a remarkable YouGov poll (carried out in mid-March) a majority of Scots indicated that they wish driven grouse shooting to be banned. A majority of Scots voters (52%) oppose driven grouse shooting compared with a mere 19% who support it. Opposition to driven grouse shooting is not a class issue but the opponents of…
Well said Mr Watson!
I don’t know who this guy is but I rather suspect he has signed our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting – given his very well-argued and detailed evidence to the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee.
What nature does for Britain – quotes
I reviewed Tony Juniper’s book on ecosystem services quite a while back, but after a tweet from him yesterday supporting the questions I posed to Countryfile, I went back and checked what Tony had written about grouse moors. Page 102: ‘We’ll always be able to treat the water, it’s just that it’s very expensive’ [A…
Please could Northumberland National Park…
Please could Northumberland National Park name, or at least give a reference, for the 20% of Britain’s spiders that will disappear if upland heather burning were to cease. I’m pretty sure that the one above isn’t one of them. But I was wondering, surely the lowlands are the place for spiders anyway – like they…
Countryfile 2
Yesterday’s blog on the item on heather burning on Sunday’s Countryfile clearly chimed with a lot of people. It was read by over 5000 folk yesterday evening and attracted a lot of comments both here and on social media. Controlled burning to stop wildfires has been likened to throwing away all your money to prevent…