The thunderclap organised by Stewart Abbott, who is also organising the Peak District Hen Harrier Day event, is being broadcast at 5pm today. If you have a Twitter, Facebook or tumblr account then please sign up to it (I wonder how many readers of this blog are on tumblr?). I wonder whether that will deliver…
Category: CAMPAIGNING: petitions, marches, writing to your MP, HHDay
Henry says ‘Save the date’ – 25 June on a Yorkshire grouse moor.
HANDS OFF OUR HEN HARRIERS Following this morning’s news (see here and here), Henry invites you to save this date: Saturday 25th June For a midday picnic and rally on a Yorkshire grouse moor. Further details available towards the end of this week.
40,000
40,000! Thank you! You and I are making all sorts of people sit up and take notice. We are about 40% of the way through the time and 40% of the way to the target of 100,000 signatures. Does that make you feel optimistic or pessimistic about getting to 100,000? Well, as far as I’m…
39,000
Yesterday we reached 39,000 signatures – that was quite a slow 1,000 signatures. Although that last 1,000 took 11 days, let’s just remember that last time around there were two periods of a month which only produced 1,000 signatures. We are still whizzing along. And already today we are half way to the next thousand…
38,000 – and your help needed please
Yesterday when I was in…oooh!…nearly gave it away then…our e-petition passed 38,000 signatures. That is, in two months, a third of the time available, we are well past a third of the way towards the 100,000 signatures needed to generate a debate in Westminster on the future of grouse shooting, and therefore to bring the…
Peak Hen Harrier Day 2016 is in Edale
The Peak District Hen Harrier Day event on 7 August will be in beautiful Edale. Natalie Bennett, the leader of the Green Party, Henry the Hen Harrier and I will be there – and no doubt a whole host of others too. Watch this space – and also this space on the Birders Against…
36,000
In the very early moments of this morning our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting passed 36,000 signatures. That last 1000 signatures took longer than most but we are still steaming ahead. Calder Valley 232 signatures – Craig Whittaker MP, CON Ross, Skye, Lochaber 171 signatures – Ian Blackford MP, SNP Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and…
Hen Harrier Day – coming to Rainham Marshes
I visited Rainham Marshes RSPB nature reserve recently for a chat about the Hen Harrier Day event which will take place there on SATURDAY 6 August starting at 11am. For new readers, Hen Harrier Day is a celebration of this marvellous bird to highlight the fact that its numbers are severely reduced by criminal activity…
35,000 – a good way to go into the weekend.
And there goes another milestone – 35,000 signatures. Thank you all. The ‘200 Club’ numbers just one constituency: Calder Valley 228 signatures – Craig Whittaker MP, CON But the ‘100 Club’ has swelled to : Ross, Skye, Lochaber 166 signatures – Ian Blackford MP, SNP Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey 145 signatures – Drew Hendry…
Dear Mr Pursglove
Dear Mr Pursglove May I thank you for your response to my previous letter on Fineshade Wood. I very much appreciated it and I am glad that I can agree with my local MP on a very local issue. Thank you again. Now that the weather has turned to a more reasonable and seasonal temperature…