Alan Stewart, former police officer and current author, says; ‘I used to help with grouse beating and occasionally shoot grouse. The wildlife crime I encountered on driven grouse moors while a police wildlife crime officer, especially on those intensive moors managed by sporting agents, and the almost impossibility of obtaining a conviction, convinced me…
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Chris Luffingham of LACS says ‘Ban driven grouse shooting’
Chris Luffingham, Campaigns Director of the League Against Cruel Sports says: ‘Driven grouse shooting is essentially a series of massacres in which up to 700,000 birds are shot on moorland each year, according to the shooting industry’s own figures. It causes a huge amount of unnecessary suffering with many grouse being shot and wounded…
Kerry McCarthy MP says ‘Ban driven grouse shooting’
Kerry McCarthy MP (Labour, Bristol East) says: ‘Only a minority of people choose to participate in the so-called “sport” of grouse shooting, which causes the unnecessary and cruel deaths of millions of game birds every year, but their hobby has an impact on us all. Moorland that is burnt or drained greatly increases the…
Terry Pickford says ‘Ban driven grouse shooting’
Terry Pickford, raptor worker, says ‘I definitely support a ban of driven grouse shooting because of the obvious damage this so called fieldsport continues to cause to a wide variety of protected birds of prey on red grouse moorland. These remote heather regions located in the north of England are being managed in…
London: a city divided on the future of grouse shooting
Support for intensive grouse shooting, as measured by numbers of signatures on a pro-grouse shooting e-petition, is concentrated in the richer areas of central London, such as Chelsea and Fulham, and is very sparse across the rest of the capital. In contrast, opposition to driven grouse shooting is spread across the capital’s constituencies, with…
Jeremy Deller says ‘Ban driven grouse shooting’
Jeremy Deller, artist, says: ‘I support a ban of driven grouse shooting. I’ve never seen a Hen Harrier but I’d very much like to – why should wildlife crime continue in our National Parks and beautiful upland areas? And intensive moorland management damages peatlands which store carbon, reduce floods and provide clean water. Why…
Dominic Mitchell says ‘Ban driven grouse shooting’
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Dominic Mitchell, Managing Editor of Birdwatch magazine and BirdGuides.com, says: ‘The negative impacts of driven grouse shooting have become alarmingly clear in recent years, and the end is surely nigh for this archaic pastime of shooting birds for fun and profit. Britain is home to most of the world’s heather moorlands but this unique ecosystem…
Charlie Moores says ‘Ban driven grouse shooting’
Charlie Moores, a founder of Birders Against Wildlife Crime, birder, ace podcaster and audio-producer for Lush, says: ‘The ‘glorious’ ritualised slaughter of hundreds of thousands of wild birds can’t be defended from any moral or ethical position. It takes a wrecking ball to precious moorland habitats and is underpinned by wildlife crime. Let’s get…
Limp response from Natural England
I’ve been at Cheltenham racecourse this week, and it was just before the last race on Wednesday that our lawyer, Tessa Gregory, phoned me to say that we had had a response from Natural England to our pre-action protocol letter. It wasn’t a very interesting response as NE said that because they were dealing with…
Yorkshire Dales NP takes the high ground on raptor persecution
There have been previous signs that the Yorkshire Dales National Park is ashamed of its deserved reputation as being a raptor persecution hotspot – and wants to do what it can to highlight the issue and move people towards a solution. This is in stark contrast with the inspid response of the Peak District National…