Interesting article on the creation of the Wallasea Island RSPB nature reserve. As ever, a great column by Twitcher in the Swamp. My Naturally Opinionated is on why we should ban driven grouse shooting. Soldierflies – they are really quite interesting. British Wildlife is always a good read.
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And that e-petition…
Our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting passed the 14,000 signature mark yesterday. 14,000 isn’t 140,000 but it is a lot of signatures. 14,000 signatures was reached in c33 days, less than five weeks. Last year it took eleven weeks to get to the same total. Just more evidence that awareness is growing and spreading…
Useful reminder – bye bye Hawk and Owl Trust
The Talking Naturally podcasts are essential listening these days. I certainly enjoyed the latest one with Philip Merricks, chair of the Hawk and Owl Trust. And it was useful in jogging my memory. The whole thing was basically about brood meddling – a scheme promoted by a bunch of shooting organisations and the Hawk and…
Henry – hare today and gone tomorrow
The Jugged Hare (49 Chiswell St, London EC1Y 4SA) did not respond in any way to my email to them about what steps they take to ensure the sustainability of the production of their grouse meat, nor did they respond on the levels of lead in game meat. I’ll assume that they either don’t know…
It really is
Following yesterday’s analysis of where the signatures come from to support the e-petition on banning driven grouse shooting (see here for a mention of it in the Guardian today), here is an analysis of English constituencies separated into Conservative and Labour seats, and rural and urban seats. Conservative rural 27.5 signatures Conservative urban 18.2 …
Henry knows the Rules
On a recent trip to London, Henry (you didn’t think he’d gone away did you?) looked in to Rules restaurant. Now Rules has a very strange attitude to customer care (see here, here, here) and although there was initial friendliness from some of the waiting staff someone looking more senior started closing curtains and…
‘Class war’ against driven grouse shooting led by rural Tories
Those who oppose the excesses of field sports are often written off as ‘lefties’ and ‘townies’ who know nothing about the countryside, as opposed to ‘real country people’ who do. I’ve never seen anything to back up this oft-heard statement, and in another life I used to point out to people voicing it that the…
Data for the next post (at 1pm)
ENGLAND ALDERSHOT CON 19 ENGLAND ALDRIDGE-BROWNHILLS CON 8 ENGLAND ALTRINCHAM AND SALE WEST CON 11 ENGLAND AMBER VALLEY CON 25 ENGLAND ARUNDEL & SOUTH DOWNS CON 26 ENGLAND ASHFIELD LAB 30 ENGLAND ASHFORD CON 19 ENGLAND ASHTON UNDER LYNE LAB 10 ENGLAND AYLESBURY CON 23 ENGLAND BANBURY CON 21 ENGLAND BARKING LAB 11 ENGLAND BARNSLEY…
By-catch
I don’t say much about the animal welfare aspects of grouse moor management – they are well-covered by others and they aren’t my main gripe with the whole system of land management (does that sound hard-hearted?). But these photos (which you should find upsetting) of a Mountain Hare leveret caught in a fenn trap touched…