Today it is the Hawk and Owl Trust’s AGM. On the H&OT website is their annual report which has these interesting lines in it: ‘For the Hawk and Owl Trust positive habitat management away from the grouse moors will be one of the actions that will hold the key to the future of the hen…
Tag: grouse shooting
Why licensing won’t work for grouse moors.
Our e-petition asking the Westminster government to ban driven grouse shooting passed 20,000 signatures recently. The momentum is growing all the time. I wonder how many signatures we will have amassed by 21 January? We’re not even half way there yet. I’m often asked why the RSPB doesn’t support a ban on driven grouse shooting…
Thunderclap reaches 500 supporters
The thunderclap launched by Moving Mountains Nature Network to support our e-petition on driven grouse moors gained its 500th supporter today – well within a week of its initiation. This is far, far quicker than I had thought. In fact, I have to admit, I had looked at the figure of 500 and wondered whether…
Regulatory failure
There’s an excellent post today on the Raptor Persecution Scotland blog about what manner of things might be in any grouse meat that you eat. Watch out Henry! I wonder how much medicine from medicated grit gets into Hen Harriers, Peregrines and other wildlife through ingestion? Has anyone looked at that? Game meat, including…
And another review of Inglorious
There’s a long review of Inglorious in October’s British Birds, by Chris Smout. ‘impassioned’ ‘singularly well-informed’ ‘the evidence he [that’s me] marshals for the deleterious effects of driven grouse shooting is impressive’ Where the good professor parts company with me is in my solution to the problems of driven grouse shooting, which of course,…
Another review of Inglorious
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There’s a very nice short review of… …by David Cobham, the author of… …reviewed here. Have a look at what David writes and then you might want to buy both of our books? A Sparrowhawk’s Lament by David Cobham (illustrated by Bruce Pearson) is published by Princeton University Press. Inglorious – conflict in the uplands…
Satellite tags
Defra doesn’t have a plan for Hen Harrier conservation – if it did then the deployment of satellite tags on a large scale by private individuals and wildlife NGOs would have to be part of it. Of course, we taxpayers have paid for satellite (and radio) tags to be deployed on a moderate scale for…
Defra – a shameful government department
One of the more reasonable aspects of the dreadful government response to our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting is that it regards the fact that there were a few more Hen Harriers this year (although many of the males disappeared of course) as encouraging. It is a little bit encouraging – but not very….
Just wondering…
The RSPB is being criticised by the usual suspects (The Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail and also the shooting press) for the number of Hen Harrier nests that failed on its watch last season. We’ve been through this several times recently, including getting the Daily Telegraph to correct its earlier version and to apologise for…
Awful government response to our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting
To Rory Stewart, Defra Dear Minister The government response to the e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting is simply awful. It is partial and inaccurate. I have previously asked Defra whether responses of this sort are seen and signed off by ministers and have never received a response. Did you sign off this response?…