Early news of attendances at Hen Harrier Day rallies is as follows: Rainham Marshes 450 Arne 500 Sheffield 350 Boat of Garten 200 Loch Leven 200 Glenarriff 75 Mull 75 Bowland tbc Rhum tbc Eigg tbc Many thanks to all who attended and made this the biggest ever, and to all the individual event organisers…
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Scenes from Hen Harrier Day in Sheffield on Saturday
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About 350 people attended, I’m told, plus a Peregrine overhead and some TV cameras. Thank you to all the speakers, to the organisers and to those who attended. Great day! We will win!
Saturday Hen Harrier cartoons from Ralph Underhill
Happy Hen Harrier Day! Thank you Ralph!
Hen Harrier Day Highlands on Sunday
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On Sunday I’ll be heading to the Highlands Hen Harrier Day event, the northernmost ever, in the Boat of Garten Community Hall, 1pm start. Free admission. Speakers: Dr Mark Avery – Author, blogger and conservationist. Andy Wightman MSP – Writer and advocate of land reform. Allan Bantick – former chair of SWT Ian Thomson –…
A big thank you in advance!
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A big thank you to all those involved in organising Hen Harrier Day events this year – it’s a lot of work, I know. On Saturday there are events at: RSPB Rainham Marshes Sheffield RSPB Loch Leven Glenarriff Forest Park On Sunday there are events at: RSPB Arne Dunsop Bridge, Lancs Isle…
Hen Harrier Day in Sheffield on Saturday
After meeting in the Derwent Valley in 2014, the #sodden570, and then assembling in the Goyt Valley in 2015, followed by a gathering in Edale last year, the Peak District area Hen Harrier Day event is slap bang in the middle of Sheffield this Saturday. The event will be ‘chaired’ by Liz Ballard, CEO of…
Peak signatures
Congratulations to local campaigners in the Peak District who, today, hand in an almost 5000-strong petition to the National Trust asking that they do not replace their exiting shooting tenant on their 8000ha estate around Kinder Scout and Bleaklow but instead move quickly forward with the NT’s own High Peak vision for rewilding and better…
Response from my MP
I am grateful to my MP, Tom Pursglove, for his responses to my letters to him. Last week I received a response to my recent letters to him about environmental protection post-Brexit, the lobbying act and fox hunting. On fox hunting, we now know that this issue is unlikely to arise in this parliament but…
A video about why we should ban driven grouse shooting
This is the video that BASC didn’t want you to see…
How you can help the Hen Harrier
Remember this video? Filmed in 2013, but only released in May this year, and it resulted in no prosecution. Hen Harriers are killed on grouse moors because they eat Red Grouse that people want to shoot for fun. Hen Harriers have had full legal protection since 1954 and yet the main factor determining their range…