33,575* Thank you to the 33,574 of you who also signed my (our) e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting. This sends a message to government and the grouse shooting industry that things need to change. You have sent a strong message to wildlife NGOs that there is huge popular support for a much more…
Category: BAN DRIVEN GROUSE SHOOTING
We have a much better plan
If these kids are to see Hen Harriers in the English uplands then we need a better plan than that of the hapless Defra. And we do… …here it is… Ban driven grouse shooting! – please sign this e-petition now! E-petition closes at 23:59, today, Thursday.
We have a better plan
If we are all to see Hen Harriers (like the female above) in the English uplands then we need a better plan than that of the hapless Defra. And we do… …here it is… Ban driven grouse shooting! – please sign this e-petition now! E-petition closes at 23:59, today, Thursday.
This is a damaged landscape
No-one could look across this landscape and see a natural one. It is burned to bits! This management is solely carried out so that there are lots of Red Grouse that rich people can shoot. Grouse moor management leads to increased flood risk, reduced aquatic life, higher water treatment costs, damage to protected habitats and…
That was another milestone
22,399 was the total of signatures we achieved last year on an e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting – I thought that was pretty good in the ten months that were allowed for it. That was over 2000 signatures a month – c75 a day – not bad at all, I thought. Today, our similar…
Six counties
It is completely understandable, that on the other side of the Irish Sea, and in an area with almost no grouse shooting, participation in this Westminster government e-petition would be low. However, my e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting has been signed and the breakdown of signatures must give more clued-up commentators something to say:…
32,000!
Wow! That surprised me. Our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting, which will close at midnight on Thursday (so only three days left to get your friends to sign) raced past 32,000 signatures at 22:32 last night. And it was racing along. Makes me wonder whether 35,000 might be possible – probably not, I…
Running out of names
Thank you all for your support for the e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting! There have been c1000 signatures in the last 48 hours. Please keep tweeting on Twitter and sharing on Facebook. Just the rest of today, Tuesday, Wednesday and all of Thursday to go! Then we can all have a rest – for…
Looking forward to talking!
I have a few gigs on over the next couple of weeks; On Wednesday (20 Jan) I am talking to what will probably be mostly a bunch of undergraduates in Cambridge – the Cambridge Nature Society – in the new David Attenborough Building, Room 1.25 A+B at 7pm (about life in general and driven grouse…
You Forgot the Birds
Do you remember You Forgot the Birds? I bet some of you do – they spent quite a lot of time, and I expect money too, attacking the RSPB for its … well, actually it was difficult to tell exactly what it was getting at. The YFTB campaign looked to many of us like an…