Standing up for Nature
Yesterday evening #justiceforannie and #bandrivengrouseshooting were trending on Twitter – that was fun! Those tweets will be read by people over the next few days and will certainly take our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting past 25,000 signatures some time soon. It looks like 25,000 signatures will be an early Christmas present. Thank you…
At 8pm the following message will go out to over 6.1 million social media accounts: “Please SIGN/SHARE this petition to #BanDrivenGrouseShooting. The illegal shooting of “Annie” warrants a debate! http://thndr.it/1La6m8y” Will we see a massive, a moderate, or a miniscule rise in the number of signatures on the e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting? I…
I was very disappointed to read this from the respected CEO of my local wildlife trust. It’s quite likely that the very few words at his disposal made the views of the Beds, Cambs and Northants WT sound sillier than they actually are – but they are his and their chosen words! The Wildlife Trusts…
I’m not really sure how today will play out – but I’m grateful to those, all of those, who have put in a lot of effort to make it a success. At 8pm this evening over 6 million messages will be sent out over social media networks asking folk to sign the e-petition to ban…
The Green Party of England and Wales is the only UK political party, as far as I am aware, which supports a ban of driven grouse shooting. And this has not just been through passive support, the party leader, Natalie Bennett, has added her name to the #justiceforannie thunderclap and has spoken out in social…
I have blogged before about the fact that one of Tim Bonner’s and the Countryside Alliance’s errors (we are making quite a long list) is that those that oppose driven grouse shooting are a bunch of left-wing townies, whereas actually we know that it is in Conservative rural constituencies, like that of the Defra Minister…
This made me smile: Dear Dr Avery, I have just finished reading your book, Inglorious, having picked it up just 24 hours ago. A fascinating and spirited read. Actually it’s two books; one rather silly one about toffs, acres of tweed, wealth, land, haves & have-nots, aristocracy, Conservative Party bashing, and, one about upland…
By chance, the three main MPs in the Peak District are from three different political parties: Andrew Bingham, High Peak, Con; Nick Clegg, Sheffield Hallam, Lib Dem; and Angela Smith, Penistone and Stockbridge, Lab. If one of these is your MP then why not write and tell them how upset you are about the lack…
I am very fond of the people who comment on this blog – most of them anyway. There is so much knowledge, and humour, and different perspectives that I learn a lot. Sometimes you just make me smile and sometimes you provide nuggets of information. Yesterday, Richard Wilson, a frequent and valued commenter here, pointed…
The Peak District National Park is failing badly in being a refuge for protected birds of prey. Our National Parks are wildlife crime hotspots because we allow game shooting to dominate the ecology of so many of them. After five years of ‘co-operation’, when ‘everyone’ was working collaboratively to increase bird of prey numbers, the…