How does shooting grouse for fun connect with the misery of having your home or business flooded? It’s no coincidence that the constituency that has provided the most signatures for our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting is the Calder Valley (Craig Whittaker MP, 762 signatures). Calder Valley has been flooded several times in recent…
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Brian May and Chris Packham discuss grouse shooting
Here are two wildlife enthusiasts talking about driven grouse shooting. Please sign this e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting, alongside Brian May and Chris Packham.
The latest Chris Packham video – Grouse medication and hare loss
Here is the latest Chris Packham video on driven grouse shooting. Oh yes – there are more to come. Please sign the e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting which passed 119,000 signatures today. Next week we will hear when the expected parliamentary debate on this subject will take place. Here are some other…
Did you see the latest Chris Packham video? Traps!
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 –…
Letter from Chris Packham to M&S
Apologies to anyone for whom this post is not displaying perfectly – I’ve tried to fix it and that’s the best I can do. Sorry! Here’s the link to this letter on Chris Packham’s website. Steve Rowe CEO Marks and Spencer Group plc London W2 1NW Dear Marks & Spencer I have a few questions…
The latest Packham video on driven grouse shooting
This is the latest in the series of videos by Chris Packham asking people to sign the e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting. This short video discusses the damage to ecosystem services done by all that burning and draining of our hills just so that a few people can shoot Red Grouse for fun. …
Watch this Chris Packham video
If you have been following the M&S grouse story then you will be interested to see this video from Chris Packham on You tube. Looks like M&S has lost another customer… For new readers: M&S refuse to answer reasonable questions 8 July 2016 M&S AGM 4 July 2016 This is not just spin,…
Sunday book review – Fingers in the Sparkle Jar by Chris Packham
If you are expecting a book of rather sweet wildlife tales from your favourite TV personality then this book may not be for you. This is a brave and powerful book. It’s brave because it is a self-portrait of a rather weird kid – not good with people and not a bundle of laughs, it…
Chris Packham was the first…
Timing is everything – and so often a matter of luck! I had noticed that the 3000th post on this blog was coming up shortly but a quick, unplanned blog about Mountain Hares meant that when my third e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting went live a little while ago this announcement could occupy the…
Thank you again Chris Packham
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I had missed this mention of Inglorious in the Mail on Sunday the weekend before last. Chris Packham, amongst a host of celebrities, mention a book that they recommend: ‘Most of the UK’s wildlife habitats and many of our species are in critical decline. We’ve lost 50 million birds from our countryside since 1970 so…