You should buy The Field this month – you really should (and you should buy Birdwatch every month, of course). I found ‘Bransdale’s resurgence‘ an interesting read, partly because Henry and I had visited some of the places mentioned in this article on our travels. Bransdale is a moor in the North York Moors –…
Category: BAN DRIVEN GROUSE SHOOTING
It’s not published yet but…
I’ve been getting ‘phone calls and emails from friends, and from people I don’t know well, telling me that they have enjoyed reading Inglorious – conflict in the uplands, even though it isn’t officially published until Thursday – that’s 30 July. The earliest copy that I know to have been bought from a bookshop was…
In your August copy of…(2)
Whereas Birdwatch magazine has a ringtail Hen Harrier on its cover this month, The Field has a marvellous image of a Red Grouse on its cover. Don’t you just want to…errr…shoot it? As a graphic example of the crisis of confidence in the British grouse shooting industry, Max Hastings calls on readers of The Field…
In your August copy of… (1)
Birdwatch magazine excels itself by putting the Hen Harrier on its front cover for its August issue (as it did last year) and featuring the plight of the Hen Harrier and Hen Harrier Day events on six pages inside the magazine including my ‘Political birder’ column, a page of information about Hen Harrier Day events…
E-petition to ban driven grouse shooting
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Do you ever get a feeling of deja vu? Do you ever get a feeling of deja vu? Yesterday the Westminster parliament website started allowing e-petitions again. The website is a bit jazzier and it’s in a nice Westminster green colour. E-petitions still need to get 10,000 signatures to receive a government response (none of…
Henry almost gets his feet burned
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Guess what?
Ban driven grouse shooting
New study of burning published
Peatlands are the largest terrestrial carbon store in the UK, 3.2 billion tonnes, and mostly occur on tops of hills where Red Grouse live. There is growing concern about the environmental impacts of intensive moorland management for the bizarre sport of grouse shooting. One of those concerns (there are others) is the increase greenhouse gas…
Henry at M&S
Henry and I have been making a point of popping in to M&S outlets as we have travelled around the country in order to spend our money on healthy sweets, pastries, crisps and fizzy drinks. We’ve done this because M&S, for a long list of good reasons, decided, last year, not to sell grouse meat…
Country Strife on burning
In this week’s Country Life magazine (p32-33) there is one of those For/Against features. This one is on burning and the RSPB’s Dr Pat Thompson wins hands down over the Moorland Association’s Amanda Anderson. I’m not sure how Country Life would feel about that as they start the ‘debate’ with a complete non sequitur: ‘…heather…