28,000 signatures and we are still in the first month. Hmmm! Pretty good. Very encouraging indeed. The 10 most productive constituencies at the moment are as follows: Calder Valley 165 signatures – Craig Whittaker MP, CON Ross, Skye, Lochaber 149 signatures – Ian Blackford MP, SNP Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey 129 signatures…
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25,000 signatures to ban driven grouse shooting!
You are all amazing – thank you for such support for this e-petition to create a better future for our uplands and their wildlife and people. 25,000 signatures in less than four weeks – how amazing is that? On the very first of these e-petitions we reached 22,399 signatures in over 10 months. I thought…
19,000, 20,000 and 21,000
Yesterday our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting passed 19,000 signatures: today, so far, it passed 20,000 and 21,000 signatures. As I write it is the top trending e-petition on the parliament website and has amassed 1100 signatures in the last hour. Thank you to LACS for an email to their supporters (which include me!)….
Most Scots want a ban on driven grouse shooting
In a remarkable YouGov poll (carried out in mid-March) a majority of Scots indicated that they wish driven grouse shooting to be banned. A majority of Scots voters (52%) oppose driven grouse shooting compared with a mere 19% who support it. Opposition to driven grouse shooting is not a class issue but the opponents of…
18,000!
The Calder Valley is the first English constituency to reach 100 signatures on our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting (highlighted in blue above). It joins Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey (113 signatures) and Ross, Skye and Lochaber (110 signatures) in the ‘100 club’. Yesterday the total number of signatures passed 18,000 signatures and we…
See you at Rainham Marshes on 6 August
RSPB will be hosting a Hen Harrier Day event at their Rainham Marshes nature reserve on Saturday 6 August (time TBC) organised by Birders Against Wildlife Crime and Mark Avery. Chris Packham will be speaking. Check back on the BAWC Hen Harrier Day website for more details from mid-May and on social media #HHDay2016. The…
17,000
I’ve been away birding for a few days and am thrilled to see that our e-petition is still steaming ahead: 17,000 signatures reached in three weeks! Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey was the first constituency to reach 100 signatures with Ross, Skye and Lochaber not far behind. Here are the top ten constituencies so far:…
Thank you Scotland!
It’s very obvious that there are a lot of signatures coming our way from Scottish constituencies. This is wonderful! And, entirely appropriate. Although our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting will eventually receive a response from Defra and not from Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, its aims are not country-specific. If we were to reach…
15000
15,000 signatures on Day 14. Last time it took 5 weeks not two weeks: the time before, it took almost 12 weeks. Momentum! Thank you very much – all of you who have signed and spread the word.
E-petition – update
While I was in Israel, our e-petition passed 11,000, 12,000 and 13,000 signatures, and then when I got back last night I watched it click over the 14,000 mark! Brilliant! Thank you everyone. At present, the leading constituency scores are as follows: Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey 88 signatures – Drew Hendry MP, SNP…