We’re now on Day 6 and the e-petition calling for a ban of driven grouse shooting is over two thirds of the way towards a Westminster Hall debate. Here’s a map of where those signatures come from; Here are constituencies with 154+ signatures already (the only significance of 154 is that is the average number…
Category: CAMPAIGNING: petitions, marches, writing to your MP, HHDay
Which constituencies are already over the line?
If you need to get 100,000 signatures across 650 Westminster parliamentary constituencies then if each of them raised 154 signatures that would do! The Wild Justice e-petition calling for a ban on driven grouse shooting, led by Chris Packham, is only in its third day and has already got half way! We topped 50,000 signatures…
Remember this? (1)
Protected wildlife is commonly and illegally killed on grouse moors.
Ban driven grouse shooting
We’re still on Day 2 and the e-petition calling for a ban of driven grouse shooting is over a third of the way towards a Westminster Hall debate. Here’s a map of where those signatures come from; Here are constituencies with 100+ signatures already: Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey, Drew Hendry MP (SNP), 209 signatures…
Lots of signatures
Twenty-eight thousand signatures in just over 24 hours – Wow! I’m not entirely sure why this is going so strongly – except that there are obviously at least 28,500 very sensible people out there. If I were a politician I would have noticed this initial very strong start (in the holiday period, too) and begin…
This…
Please sign and share this new e-petition in favour of banning driven grouse shooting. The petition was submitted by Chris Packham on behalf of Wild Justice on 4 July and got the requisite five signatures to go into the system on 5 July. Quite why it has been stuck in the system for nearly six…
Hen Harrier Day from Wild Justice
Wild Justice has produced three blogs, so far, on the Hen Harrier Day event on Sunday. Here they all are (more coming later): HHDay 2019 (1) HHDay 2019 (2) HHDay 2019 (3)
Hen Harrier Day 2019
Attendance: 1500+ What a day! More later…
Hen Harrier Day event tomorrow
The weather forecast (Saturday morning) is good for tomorrow – it’s going to be a bit windy today! We’ll be checking the forecast and suggest you do too! An update from Carsington at midday Saturday was that the weather then was ‘Very wet and not a little windy’ but that the forecast was better for…
Hen Harrier Day – on Sunday
The weather forecast is looking good – maybe a few light showers? Derbyshire Police Rural Crime Team will have a stand and be delighted to talk to you about wildlife crime issues. Derbyshire Wildlife Trust have produced an amazing small book of children’s writing on Hen Harriers – on sale on the day. The speaker…