The Calder Valley constituency is currently the one offering the greatest support to the e-petition calling for a ban of driven grouse shooting. That’s not surprising since it is the home of the Ban the Burn campaign and there is plenty of support for the idea that recent floods have been caused by the intensification…
Tag: grouse moor
Save the dates – brood meddling appeal
Though the mills of God grind slowly; Yet they grind exceeding small https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mills_of_God We have a date, two days actually, for our appeal of the brood-meddling judgment. After Halloween And after the Rugby World Cup final And after Guy Fawkes Night And after the end of the grouse shooting season And after the general election…
The RSPB and game shooting
Saturday’s welcome announcement from the RSPB that they are reviewing their position over game shooting is just that – welcome. None of us yet knows what that review will look like nor what, if anything, the RSPB has in mind might change; but we can guess. First, you don’t announce a review if your attention…
NEWS: RSPB prepares to shift position on gamebird shooting
At yesterday’s RSPB AGM, Kevin Cox, the Chair of Council made the following announcement; There is growing concern about the environmental impact (including for carbon, water and biodiversity) of intensive forms of game bird shooting and associated land management practices. This includes both driven grouse moor management (which involves shooting our native red grouse) and…
Important study about which grouse moor managers are keeping quiet
This study has cropped up before on this blog (partly because of the unusual secrecy about who funded it – see here and here) and partly because of the fact that it has been ‘quoted’ by grouse shooting interests in the past before it was published. Now it is published and the grouse shooting industry…
East Allenheads needs a Magritte, a stuffed alligator and a helipad
Jeremy Herrmann owns two grouse moors in County Durham and Northumberland (Muggleswick and East Allenheads respectively) which have been mentioned in this blog before – see here and here and more recently here. It seems that one Boris Johnson may well have visited East Allenheads for a spot of grouse shooting in 2015. East Allenheads…
And another…
See here Where is the Werritty report and will it be fit for purpose? Why are NE licensing brood meddling instead of clamping down on wildlife crime? Why has no Defra minister ever condemned the scale of illegal killing of protected wildlife on driven grouse moors? Why is the Moorland Association not ostracised by statutory…
E-petition to ban driven grouse shooting – update
The total has passed 111,111 signatures and the prospect of a general election campaign (which would close all such petitions on the UK Parliament website) keeps approaching and receding, more often than the movement of the tides it seems to me. It’s unclear whether the time for ‘one last big push’ is today or in…
Gone, gone, gone…
A brood of five Hen Harrier chicks were ‘brood-meddled’ this year, and all were satellite-tagged so that we could all relish their adventures over the coming years. Trouble is, three of these birds have ceased transmitting signals to their expensive satellite links – just as is normal for Hen Harriers that spend much time on…
NEWS: We have been granted leave to appeal brood-meddling
I have been given leave to appeal Hon Justice Lang’s decision that brood-meddling of Hen Harrier nests is legal. The fight goes on! It doesn’t exactly look spectacular online, does it? RSPB has also been given leave to appeal on the same issue. We learned of this by noticing the online decision, as we have…