Last week, on Friday and Sunday evenings BASC spokesmen were talking about what BASC was doing to rid their membership of wildlife criminals. Both Duncan Thomas and Steve Bloomfield were saying that BASC were doing their bit. I know both of them a little, I’ve met and talked to them, and I’d be more inclined…
Tag: grouse shooting
GWCT drowning not waving
Wouldn’t it be terrible if the GWCT went bust? In a recent letter to supporters, who clearly aren’t being supportive enough, Teresa Dent has told them that GWCT has a hole in its finances. Well, who would have thought it? Anyone would have thought that there was a global financial and health crisis… Maybe the…
Reposting
The following was first posted on 3 July 2017 – in a way nothing has changed. It’s good to talk. But talking can also be used as a refuge from taking action. If there’s one thing that is likely to get me animatedly irritated (and friends have seen this happen a few times) is when…
What a mess!
The excellent Raptor Persecution UK revealed yesterday that all five of the brood-meddled Hen Harriers from last year are missing. Maybe one or two will spring back to life but it isn’t looking good. What a mess! Brood meddling is an idea cooked up by the grouse shooting industry and licensed by Natural England, but…
Guest blog – Things I would like to be different by Paul Fisher
Despite being bought up in the wilds of Lewisham, SE London, I seem always to have had a love for the great outdoors. Giving up the London commute at 28, we spent twelve years in the Lake District and then moved to Lincolnshire. Two small businesses later, I’ve now retired to run our mini wildlife…
Tweets
This is an occasional update on the main Twitter accounts of some of our favourite wildlife organisations (and BASC and GWCT). The table below shows the number of followers in thousands (NT 886,000 followers). A caveat: you can’t judge a man, or an organisation, by the size of their Twitter following, but in a world…
Countryfile last night
Last night’s Countryfile programme was great on butterflies and better than usual on crimes against birds of prey. You can watch the whole entertaining programme here and the raptor slot started at about 10:20 into the show (the butterflies before were really great!). Tom Heap was the presenter of this item and he’s pretty good,…
Channel 4 News, yesterday evening
If you missed Channel 4 News’s feature on wildlife crime associated with grouse shooting then you can see it, but only until about 8pm this evening, by following the link above. It’s worth a look (starts at 44 minutes and lasts 10 minutes). But here are some highlights: Inspector Matt Hagen of North Yorkshire Police…
You won’t see this ReTweeted by grouse shooters
It’s always interesting to see what the grouse shooting lobby say on social media, and who retweets it. Here’s an example from last week by the newly formed (‘independent’) Campaign for the Protection of Moorland Communities; This was retweeted by Amanda Anderson (as you can see above) the Director of the Moorland Association, by the…
Conflict over the uplands in social media?
If you all turn to p273 of your copies of Inglorious then you will find an exhortation from me to use social media in our campaign to ban driven grouse shooting. Written in January 2015 it lists the Twitter followers of the following organisations and individuals. Here are what they were then, in June 2016…