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…
Category: BAN DRIVEN GROUSE SHOOTING
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…
Hen Harriers need your help
Hen Harriers can’t fight back! They need your help. In 2015 there were only six successful Hen Harrier nests in England – and that was a better year than many recent ones. There should be c330 pairs of Hen Harrier nesting in England in upland areas such as the Peak District, the North York…
Natalie Bennett calls again for ban on grouse shooting
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After visiting Walshaw Moor and the flood-hit town of Hebden Bridge, Green Party leader, Natalie Bennett, reiterated her party’s call for a ban on grouse shooting. Bennett was reported in the Daily Telegraph as saying that intensive grouse moor management is ‘incompatible with 21st-century needs of flood prevention‘ and called it a ‘conservation disaster‘. She…
And thank you Scotland!
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Thank you to all those in Scotland who have signed the e-petition on the Westminster government website calling for a debate to ban driven grouse shooting. We’ll do the same for you if you need it! We see the usual pattern of signatures in Scotland – many more in rural areas than urban ones, and…