It was the Sunday morning after the Friday evening about which I have already written. And when I say it was the Sunday morning it most certainly was but it was closer to the coming breakfast than the past supper and I was just leaving the bar of a Buxton Hotel, after plotting the downfall…
Category: SHOOTERS
GWCT comes clean on lead
The move by Waitrose to require its game suppliers to supply game meat that has not been shot with lead ammunition from the 2020/21 shooting season is likely to have considerable knock-on impacts. The GWCT is the leading scientific authority used by the shooting industry and, for example, restaurants that sell game. For example, when…
Country Life makes a lot of sense
This is a very well-written and fairly accurate editorial in Country Life magazine. You’ll see that it says many of the things that I have said myself in the blog post before this one. I’d written all of that blog before I saw the Country Life editorial so I was interested to see how similar…
British Game and Lead Alliance
The British Game Alliance has posted a statement on their website about Waitrose’s very sensible position on lead ammunition – here it is. It’s all a bit feeble. They can’t criticise Waitrose and they can’t criticise the Food Standards Authority so they say – not very much at all. But what they should be saying…
Shameless spin from Moorland Association
It’s very touching to see Amanda Anderson trying to grab the credit for Hen Harriers nesting in Bowland for grouse moors. Yes, there are a few days shooting on the United Utilities land but, to the best of my knowledge, there were no Hen Harrier nests on the large areas of driven grouse moors in…
Quite sporting…
Sporting Gun is never going to displace Birdwatch, British Birds or British Wildlife from my affections but I am thinking of subscribing just to keep an eye on the more moderate and sensible end of shooting. A friend who shoots (yes – imagine it!) brought me back a copy from the Game Fair – they…
Game shooting industry sinks deeper and deeper
I mentioned last week, at the very end of this blog post, that I was planning to be at the Game Fair at Hatfield House on Friday . I didn’t make a big deal of it as I have been to c20 Game Fairs over the years and been on a panel for a good…
GWCT called out over spin
The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust is in serious trouble over its spin. See this series of tweets from Jeff Knott, RSPB Director of East England (and former species policy officer at The Lodge). All the above tweets come from current or past RSPB staff (one of whom was also an ex-GWCT staff member). I…
Rattled, rattled, rattled!
It’s a bit of a pity that today’s Farming Today piece was introduced as a legal challenge to Pheasant shooting because it isn’t – it is a legal challenge against Defra and their failure to assess the ecological impacts of gamebird releases. But apart from that I’m happy with the interview I did for Farming…
Wild Justice blog: GWCT stung into limp, unconvincing defence of their members
See this Wild Justice blog post.