Standing up for Nature
The Scottish Raptor Study Group-led petition for better regulation of gamebird shooting closed at midnight last night at 7216 signatures – but there will be other paper signatures (some from the Bird Fair) that can be added to that total so we are looking at a 7500+ total. Well done! I hope that the Scottish…
Good luck at the Green Man Festival – we’ll be thinking of you at the Bird Fair. Glanusk Estate. Please sign our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting.
Just a minor quibble. I did several radio interviews last week and I noticed that I kept being introduced with the same words – later I discovered that they came, basically from this BBC news story by Claire Marshall. The introduction on a series of BBC local radio stations often started by saying that animal…
Have a look at this article and photographs from the Ban the Burn protest at Hebden Bridge. Good luck to them! Calder Valley remains the constituency with the highest number of signatures on the e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting – 679 of them as I write. I wonder whether, assuming that we get a…
Thanks to everyone at WOMAD for a great time. Thanks to Ecotricity for the chance to attend. Thanks to the wonderful Wildes for most of these images, leafletting and beer – but no skittles. Thanks to everyone who took away leaflets and promised to sign the e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting which…
The latest Chris Packham video refers to the pole trap incident on the Mossdale Estate near Hawes in the Yorkshire Dales National Park as well as to the legal use of such traps to kill stoats Remember that family of stoats on Springwatch from Minsmere? They are regarded as vermin on a grouse moor –…
A six foot Hen Harrier is hoping it does not rain over the weekend as that might cramp his style a bit. Henry is going to WOMAD and will be showing his moves to any ringtails around. Here is the list of artists and Henry can’t see his name there… Henry will be fraternising with…
Fieldsports magazine has asked its reader (is there more than one?) to use this handy checklist on social media to ‘spread the truth about grouse moor management’ – here are some responses. Please feel free to respond to any social media on this subject by linking to these answers. Presumably this is the best that…
Another month, another illegal trap, another driven grouse moor in another National Park. This trap, in fact these traps, found in the open by two walkers, were more easily located because they contained a severely injured Common Gull whose injuries were so bad that it was euthanised. The story is well told by our older…
If you want to put forward a point of view on grouse shooting then you are very welcome to comment on this blog – where your comment won’t be deleted and won’t be selectively quoted. If you want an argument with me about grouse shooting then come here and try your luck. Yesterday evening a…