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…
Category: CAMPAIGNING: petitions, marches, writing to your MP, HHDay
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…
Hen Harrier Day website up and running
Check out the newly-launched Hen Harrier Day website. There’ll be more coming over the next days and weeks, but it’s there and it’s useful. Many thanks to those who have put this resource together.
Banning driven grouse shooting – we are in the end game
While we wait for the Petitions Committee to be formed anew after the general election, and then have a meeting, and then decide on when to debate this matter, the world must look like a hostile place for the grouse shooting industry. The recent floods point again to land use in the uplands needing to…
An interesting petition
This is, as it says, a petition to save the last known nesting site for Turtle Doves in Rye, Sussex. It’s worth signing even though loss of nest sites is not the most important thing affecting Turtle Doves across the UK. This very rapidly declining species is almost certainly declining because of intense farming rather…
An unresponsive MP
So far I have had no response from my MP to my letter to him of a month ago – see here. This is very disappointing and I hope it doesn’t mean that Mr Pursglove has a more sizable majority he is going to ignore his constituents… Note added later: A response arrived in the…
Hen Harrier Day 2020
Hen Harrier Days celebrate a fantastic bird and highlight the illegal persecution that it faces. They are a family occasion, a show of solidarity with nature and a call to action. The Hen Harrier is a rare native bird and it would be much commoner if we could end wildlife crime. Yet public awareness remains…
Letter to my MP
Dear Mr Pursglove I must write to congratulate you on your return as my MP and with a significantly increased majority. I voted for your main opponent in the election, Beth Miller, but I still wish you well in parliament. However, I do have several concerns about the direction that the Johnson government is going…
Campaign of the year
The Birdwatch Birders’ Choice nominations are published, and the closing date is the end of this month – click here. The short-listed nominations for Campaign of the Year are: #NetsDownForNature made a lot of useful noise and drew attention to the netting of trees, buildings, hedges back in the spring – it made a difference…
The final scores
If you signed this e-petition then ‘Thank you!’. If you signed it recently and haven’t clicked on the confirmation email you were sent then it might be worth finding it quickly (though it might already be too late). Here’s the list of constituencies with more than 200 signatures, an entirely random cut off point, with…