2019 will be another bad year for driven grouse shooting. Here are some of the reasons: the long, long, long-awaited analysis of the NE Hen Harrier tagging data should be published soon. Getting these data published clearly hasn’t been as straightforward as the authors had hoped as back in mid-August they were hoping that the…
Category: CAMPAIGNING: petitions, marches, writing to your MP, HHDay
2018 – another terrible year for grouse shooters
Grouse shooting is still with us but its supporters must be counting the years. The ratchet of progress is irresistible and driven grouse shooting is doomed. 2018 brought its demise a bit closer and so will 2019. I’m looking forward to 2019. 2018 was the year when: there were very few Red Grouse available for…
Letter to my MP – we might agree on this!
Dear Mr Pursglove I hope you will vote against the Brexit deal agreed between the government and the EU. I suspect you may vote against it because you don’t feel it is a sufficiently hard Brexit. I feel it isn’t a sufficiently soft Remain. But, for once, I trust we can agree that it is…
Banning driven grouse shooting – a rising tide.
Let us start with a quote: 31 October 2016 Therese CoffeyI have heard the concerns of some hon. Members that birds of prey, particularly hen harriers, are deliberately being killed. The Government take the illegal persecution of raptors very seriously. On the missing hen harriers in the last fortnight, the matter has been referred to…
#peoplesmanifestoforwildlife – what Conservative MPs are saying
Conservative MPs are obviously important players in what happens to the environment and wildlife. The Conservative Party is the largest single party in the Westminster parliament and forms the government, albeit with the flagging support of the DUP. Conservative MPs can, if they so choose, influence what Michael Gove does – for good or ill….
MPs who have responded to the #peoplesmanifestoforwildlife
Thank you if you have already written to your MP about the Manifesto for Wildlife. If you haven’t got around to it yet then do please give it a go – here is some information and advice. Here are MPs from whom you have told me that you have had substantive replies (I’m sure there…
Letter to my MP
Dear Mr Pursglove Thank you for your letter, dated 28 September, in response to my emails. I am grateful for your detailed reply although you didn’t actually answer my question of what you think of the People’s Manifesto for Wildlife which was what I asked. Instead you sent me some information which you must think…
Letter from my MP
I’m grateful to my MP, Tom Pursglove for his timely response to my emails inviting him to attend the People’s Walk for Wildlife and then asking him to have a look at the Manifesto for Wildlife. The response shows that someone has put some time into constructing it, and that it’s not just a brush…
OK, I’m nagging you.
Today it’s raining in east Northants – it’s a dull day. Two weeks ago it was raining in London – it was a brilliant day. Whether or not you were one of the #soddententhousand please write to your MP this rainy weekend and ask them what they will do to promote wildlife in parliament. Here…
May’d for the grouse shooters?
I listened to Theresa May’s conference speech and was quite impressed by it – it was quite clever in many ways (full text here). But I still won’t be voting Conservative. However, there were two sentences that were next to each other that just sum up why the Conservative Party, Michael Gove, Therese Coffey et…