There are three petitions going the rounds at the moment which refer to grouse shooting. These two are well worthy of support in my opinion: A petition on the UK parliament website which calls for an independent study to assess the economic benefit of grouse shooting – proposed by Les Wallace (a frequent commenter…
Category: CAMPAIGNING: petitions, marches, writing to your MP, HHDay
Four signatures so far (Icelandic whaling letter from tour operators)
The letter below was sent to eight travel companies asking them whether they would sign up. So far we have four signatures and two refusals (see below). I have no beef with the two companies, so far, who have said a polite ‘no’. All companies are different, they face different constraints and signing this letter…
Hen Harrier Day at Grassington
Full details of the North of England Raptor Forum Hen Harrier Day event – a catchily-titled Raptor Persecution Awareness Open-Day – are now published. There is no need to get a ticket and no need to book – so just come along between 10am and 2pm on Saturday 11 August. That’s probably where I’ll…
Hen Harrier Day events 2018
The list of known events are on the Birders Against Wildlife Crime website. There may be more – if so please make them known. Check dates and details on that site. So far: RSPB nature reserves: Rainham Marshes Arne Elsewhere: Grantown-on-Spey Grassington, Yorkshire Parkgate, Cheshire Stratford-u-Avon Cricket Ground Sheffield
Guest blog – My e-petition for licensing grouse shooting by Ed Hutchings
Ed writes about his e-petition to license driven grouse shooting. Twitter: @EdHutchings It was in India that I learnt the news that the Government had responded to my petition to license driven grouse shooting. The grouse moors of Britain felt a million miles away from the dusty śāl forests of central India immortalised by Kipling….
Wake up Lib Dems!!
Here are two maps. The first looks like the fairly familiar map of signatures for banning driven grouse shooting although to make it a bit more comparable with the second map it is the slightly different ‘% of constituents signing for a ban of driven grouse shooting’. And the second is the LibDem share of…
Grouse shooting demonstrates lack of public support
The e-petition in support of grouse shooting has now closed – but it actually fizzled our ages ago. It scrabbled together 15 thousand signatures and had the richer parts of London as its most enthusiastic areas of support. We can regard it as having been supported by a network of land agents and their masters…
Three petitions
Hardly anybody wants grouse shooting to continue – or if they do then they can’t be bothered to exert themselves so much as to sign a petition to protect their interests, and hardly anybody wants it to be licensed (even though the RSPB has promoted this idea in its magazine). In contrast, a raggle taggle…
Hen Harrier Day/Weekend
The dates for Hen Harrier Day/Weekend are fixed for 11 and 12 August 2018. How Glorious! A few people have contacted me about events but I’m the wrong person to ask as it is Birders Against Wildlife Crime who have coordinated things for the last few years. Keep an eye on this website for…
Petitions update 30 April
Not much to say about this because nothing much is happening.