IPSO account of our successful complaint against the Daily Telegraph. And my earlier account.
Category: BAN DRIVEN GROUSE SHOOTING
Why licensing won’t work for grouse moors.
Our e-petition asking the Westminster government to ban driven grouse shooting passed 20,000 signatures recently. The momentum is growing all the time. I wonder how many signatures we will have amassed by 21 January? We’re not even half way there yet. I’m often asked why the RSPB doesn’t support a ban on driven grouse shooting…
Thunderclap reaches 500 supporters
The thunderclap launched by Moving Mountains Nature Network to support our e-petition on driven grouse moors gained its 500th supporter today – well within a week of its initiation. This is far, far quicker than I had thought. In fact, I have to admit, I had looked at the figure of 500 and wondered whether…
Ilkley
I’m looking forward to talking at the Ilkley Literature Festival on Saturday. Last weekend, to coincide with the opening of the heather burning season, the Ban Bloodsports on Ilkley Moor group staged a protest outside Bradford City Hall. Maybe I’ll meet some of them at my talk and they’ll be sitting next to the local…
Regulatory failure
There’s an excellent post today on the Raptor Persecution Scotland blog about what manner of things might be in any grouse meat that you eat. Watch out Henry! I wonder how much medicine from medicated grit gets into Hen Harriers, Peregrines and other wildlife through ingestion? Has anyone looked at that? Game meat, including…
The first 20,000 signatures
Our e-petition to ask the Westminster government to ban driven grouse shooting, reached 20,000 signatures last night. That took less than two and a half months. Last year, the similar e-petition took six and a half months to reach the same milestone. And remember, this has been done by you and me, and 19,998 others…
Let’s get a debate in parliament!
I’m grateful to the ‘TeamforNature’ (on Twitter @MMNNActionUK) for setting up a thunderclap in support of the idea of getting a debate in the Westminster parliament on the future of driven grouse shooting. You can add your name to this thunderclap if you have a Twitter, Facebook and/or tumblr social media account. Then, provided we…
Satellite tags
Defra doesn’t have a plan for Hen Harrier conservation – if it did then the deployment of satellite tags on a large scale by private individuals and wildlife NGOs would have to be part of it. Of course, we taxpayers have paid for satellite (and radio) tags to be deployed on a moderate scale for…
E-petition
Our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting passed 19,000 signatures inside 2 months (late July, Aug, some of Sept). Last year, it took over 5 months to reach the same level (late May, June, July, August, September, October, early November). Thank you to all who have signed already and promoted it- keep going please! We’re…
Our Hen Harrier Study
Yesterday I received this reply from NE to a request for information about our Hen Harrier study. Dear Dr Avery, Access to Information Request – Request Number RFI 3112 Thank you for your request for information relating the Hen Harrier study which we received on 01 September 2015. Your request has been considered under…