GWCT have a blog which is usually asking you for money but this one is trying to rewrite history in order to curry favour with DEFRA too. Phrases such as; These sites are designated for rare and vulnerable birds (and for regularly occurring migratory species) by the EU under the Birds Directive. Your SSSI may…
Category: SHOOTERS
Lead shot lack of progress
On Wednesday a paper was published showing that, so far, nothing has changed in lead ammunition use – see here. Report in the BBC – click here and listen to BBC Inside Science – click here about half way through. Report in the Telegraph – see here. The GWCT take it on the chin (and…
NEWS: No progress on lead ammunition after one year – who’d have guessed?
A year ago the shooting organisations ‘took responsibility’ for phasing out lead ammunition with a fanfare; At the time I wrote: This statement from a bunch of land owning, land managing and shooting organisations is to be welcomed but not praised. After years of hindering progress these ultra-conservative bodies have bowed to the inevitable and…
GWCT seriously strapped for cash – they say
In their recent evasive blog the GWCT say that I once wrote that I ‘was hoping the GWCT might soon be going bust‘. Wrong again, I didn’t write any such thing (have a look) indeed my blog started with the words ‘Wouldn’t it be terrible if the GWCT went bust?’ which has the opposite meaning,…
GWCT fails to support DEFRA’s #500mmyth with any science
If the GWCT cannot conjure up a single scientific publication to support the 500m buffer zone for non-native gamebird releases near protected sites, and they can’t, then it seems that no-one can – read the Wild Justice blog here. DEFRA is planning to consult on the #500mmyth next week along with other aspects of the…
Mountain Hares to be moved to Langholm by friendly gamekeepers?
The Scottish Gamekeepers Association say they plan to talk to the Langholm Initiative about returning Mountain Hares back to Langholm. The suggestion that this would involve up to 25,000 animals a year, the number that have been culled in recent years (2015 figure), are certainly exagerrated – but this ‘proposal’ looks more like a new…
Wild Justice asks GWCT…
… to fact check Secretary of State, George Eustice’s statements on gamebirds for scientific accuracy – click here.
Biodegradable shotgun cartridges from Spain
Things are moving slowly in shooting, but in the right direction it seems. Fifty million biodegradable shotgun cartridges this year – that’s enough to replace just those used in Pheasant shooting in the UK in a normal year where about 15 million Pheasants are shot but that takes between three and four cartridges per downed…
Still quite murky…
At the end of November I posted this about the WWT’s ‘refocus’ document. I’d read it several times and couldn’t really make much sense of it. It felt a little more like something one would find on a corporate website which was aiming not to tell you anything than the sharp new vision for a…
What do gamekeepers do?
Have a look at the Wild Justice blog – click here.