Even the Daily Telegraph (from yesterday) finds something funny about driven grouse shooting. At least, the incomparable Alex does. Please sign the e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting – last chance is today!
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Last chance to sign
Our winning e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting has its last day today! You won’t be able to sign the e-petition after midnight tonight (although you will be able to click on the confirmation email that you are sent when you do sign). A late flurry of extra signatures would be nice, and for neatness…
State of Nature – BII
The UK is ‘one of the most nature-depleted countries on Earth’ was one of the headlines that the media took away from the State of Nature report. This sounded new and worrying to me, although entirely believable, so I was interested to see the evidence on which it is based. You’ll find that on pp…
Chris Packham interviews me about our e-petition
We are in the last few days of our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting. Every signature is valuable and you only have today, tomorrow and Tuesday to sign. How about signing now, please?
Driven grouse shooting campaign – a timeline and how you can help
We have entered the last three days of our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting. Overnight we passed another mini-milestone: at 122,399. Can you work it out? Answer at foot of page. I must mention that the Ribble Valley constituency reached 500 signatures yesterday – a tremendous achievement of community engagement. Thank you all! The…
Badger cull debate
To get a flavour of the type of debate that our e-petition on banning driven grouse shooting might receive, have a look at the transcript of the Westminster Hall debate on badger culling. I sat in the debate last week, on Wednesday afternoon, as a member of the public. This debate on badger culling had…
121,000+ and just over a week to go
With a whole week and whatever remains of today, Tuesday, to go before our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting closes, here is how the constituencies with over 300 signatures stand: Calder Valley 859 High Peak 554 Bristol West 510 Ross, Skye and Lochaber 505 Ribble Valley 479 Derbyshire Dales 473 Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and…
Calling the Calder Valley constituency!
Dear Calder Valley constituents I’d like to thank you for your support for my e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting. Your constituency has provided the largest number of signatures supporting my e-petition – over 850 signatures with just over a week to go. I guess that the reason that support has been so strong from…
Chris Packham interviews Paul Irving
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Chris Packham interviews Paul Irving – an experienced raptor worker in the north of England. To add your name to the e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting please sign here.
120,000 signatures and rising
I’ll be in Sheffield tomorrow and Saturday at the conference where I expect to have a lovely time amongst GWCT, Moorland Association, BASC and Scottish Land and Estates staff. In case they’ve missed it, here is how the constituencies with over 300 signatures stand: Calder Valley 828 High Peak 549 Bristol West 503 Ross, Skye…