Ban driven grouse shooting
Category: 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…
Sunday book review – Skydancer by Martin Bradley
This is the latest book by Martin Bradley (see here and here) aimed primarily at children – and this time he tackles the controversial Hen Harrier. There is a lot to like in this book although I think there are a few snags in it too. Personally I like the illustrations, most of them, very…
Join the Hen Harrier Day thunderclap – update 3
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“We’re missing our Hen Harriers – and we want them back!” That’s the message that will be sent through social media at 10am on Hen Harrier Day, 9 August to a ‘social reach’ which currently stands at over 1.8 million people. Last year, by Hen Harrier Day, the social reach was well over 2 million…
Henry ponders Langholm 2
Henry is here rather wistfully eyeing up the ringtail babes on this helpful sign about the second Langholm Project – Langholm 2. Langholm 2 has been going for ages and is looking at how with better management, restoration of heather cover and techniques like diversionary feeding, Hen Harriers and driven grouse shooting might co-exist together….
Join the Hen Harrier Day thunderclap – update 2
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Whether you can or can’t attend Hen Harrier Eve, and whether you can or can’t attend Hen Harrier Day, you can, if you use social media, add your name to a message that will go around the world at 10am on Hen Harrier Day saying: “We’re missing our Hen Harriers – and we want them…
Henry looks disturbed
We’re still at Langholm – there’s Sir John’s monument in the far distance on the hill. Does Henry look disturbed? Well maybe a little. We had spent ages sitting in the car looking over Langholm Moor in the pleasant sunshine of early June (for that is when we were there) waiting for the crowds to…
Another great review of Inglorious
It would, perhaps, be a bit surprising if the guys at Raptor Persecution Scotland weren’t keen on Inglorious – but stranger things have happened. And so I was relieved that they seemed to love it! Inglorious is not a book about raptors – it’s a book about the ills of driven grouse shooting. But there…