Tomorrow Scottish MSPs will vote on whether to make Mountain Hares a protected species. Mountain Hares are killed in large numbers on so-called sporting estates, largely grouse moors. The main reason, or excuse, is that Mountain Hares carry a tick which carries a virus which affects all sorts of other wildlife but including Red Grouse….
Category: CAMPAIGNING: petitions, marches, writing to your MP, HHDay
Something for a rainy weekend
Many of you were very enthusiastic about the idea of a GCSE in Natural History – and some were less enthusiastic. Whichever you are, then you have the opportunity to add your views to the consultation, and it looks like rain this weekend so maybe now is a good time (although you have until 19…
11 weeks to go… Hen Harrier Day 2020
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Eleven weeks tomorrow there will be an online Hen Harrier Day broadcast live over t’internet. I read in the Hen Harrier Day newsletter this week that planning is going well, and from what I’ve heard more directly there are some big plans and lots of people working very hard already. Why not sign up to…
Planning for an online Hen Harrier Day
An online Hen Harrier Day for 2020 In January I told you about plans for Hen Harrier Day in 2020. These were going along swimmingly until Covid-19 came along. There were plans for Hen Harrier Days in all the countries of the UK, ten events in all with more in the pipeline. There were some…
No surprise – and very sensible
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Petitions update
But here is an update on the new petitions that I told you about 10 days or so ago: Publish the Russia report, now 53,702 signatures (was 23,953 signatures) Make Hedgehogs a Protected Species, now 42,455 signatures (was 6557 signatures) Legal rights for ancient trees, now 5,354 signatures (was 607 signatures) Don’t criminalise trespass, now…
Two Hen Harrier arrests
Raptor Persecution UK does a fantastic job of keeping us all informed about raptor persecution, and their Twitter profile‘s words of ‘Think illegal raptor persecution is a thing of the past? Think again!‘ are just spot on. Last week and last night RPUK brought us all news of two alleged observed shootings of ‘protected’ Hen…
Ban driven grouse shooting to be debated again in Westminster parliament
We do not have a date yet but this petition will be debated in the next few weeks, we hope. See Wild Justice blog for a few more details. Sign up to Wild Justice newsletter for updates.
A new suite of e-petitions
The petitions site re-opened yesterday for those wishing to petition the UK parliament. Here are some that caught my eye yesterday evening: Publish the Russia report, 23,953 signatures Make Hedgehogs a Protected Species, 6557 signatures Legal rights for ancient trees, 1607 signatures Don’t criminalise trespass, 157 signatures We call on DEFRA, to reinstate the ban…
New Petitions Committee
The new House of Commons Petitions Committee has been formed. One piece of unfinished business is a certain highly-supported petition on banning driven grouse shooting. If (when, surely?) debated this petition will give a DEFRA minister the opportunity to respond to the issue of burning of peatlands and in particular the recommendation by the Committee…