Protected wildlife is commonly and illegally killed on grouse moors.
Tag: grouse shooting
Ban driven grouse shooting
We’re still on Day 2 and the e-petition calling for a ban of driven grouse shooting is over a third of the way towards a Westminster Hall debate. Here’s a map of where those signatures come from; Here are constituencies with 100+ signatures already: Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey, Drew Hendry MP (SNP), 209 signatures…
The Inglorious 12th
Intensive grouse shooting is in the news like never before: Natural England Chair, Tony Juniper, calls for vicarious liability for wildlife crimes (as did his predecessor of course – but this time it is at the beginning of his tenure and not at the end)(see Sunday Telegraph and Sunday Times) Labour calls for review of…
Inglorious Debate by Gill Lewis
Gill Lewis is an author (see here and here) and spoke at yesterday’s Hen Harrier Day event (and see here). The Glorious Twelfth is the best day of the year. It just simply isn’t true to say Driven grouse shooting is underpinned by wildlife crime And that the intensive burning of the moors is damaging…
Hen Harrier Day event tomorrow
The weather forecast (Saturday morning) is good for tomorrow – it’s going to be a bit windy today! We’ll be checking the forecast and suggest you do too! An update from Carsington at midday Saturday was that the weather then was ‘Very wet and not a little windy’ but that the forecast was better for…
Country Life makes a lot of sense
This is a very well-written and fairly accurate editorial in Country Life magazine. You’ll see that it says many of the things that I have said myself in the blog post before this one. I’d written all of that blog before I saw the Country Life editorial so I was interested to see how similar…
Poor prospects for Red Grouse shooting – short, medium and long term
According to this round-up by Guns on Pegs this looks like being a poor year for Red Grouse shooting in most parts of the UK – the second year in a row. This looks like it is probably due to the weather – and the types of extreme weather events that haven’t helped this year…
Natural England begging for your money (2)
I wrote the other day about Natural England having a crowdfunder so that it can do its job, because ‘continuing’ its ‘vital conservation work’ is its job. The excellent ENDS Report, which seems to be a regular reader of this blog, has managed to get a quote from my mate, Tony Juniper, Chair of Natural…
RSPB press release
Over 10 hen harrier chicks satellite tagged this summer RSPB’s Hen Harrier LIFE project has fitted more than 10 young hen harriers with satellite tags this summer in Scotland. The EU LIFE funded project tagged birds from the Borders to the Highlands, with the generous support and assistance from of a variety of partners, volunteers,…
Hen Harrier breeding season in England and the licensing issue
The RSPB has revealed, ahead of Hen Harrier Day on Sunday, that as well as the five nests producing 22 fledged young in the Forest of Bowland, RSPB staff were involved in a partnership (for the fifth year in a row) in Northumberland where this year three successful nests (out of six attempts) produced nine…