Heaven only knows where grouse shooting gets its public relations advice but I hope it isn’t paying much for it because it certainly isn’t working with the outside world. Grouse shooting is bound to be an emotive issue. Grouse shooting is about killing wild animals for fun, and it is a ‘sport’ that is mostly…
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Hen Harrier Day – sign up to join me in the Peak District on 10 August
Hen Harriers are killed illegally by game shooting interests to protect Red Grouse until the grouse can be shot for ‘sport’. There should be over 300 pairs of Hen Harriers in the English uplands but last year there were just two pairs. The Peak District should have several pairs of this beautiful bird but most…
An e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting.
If you aren’t interested in Hen Harriers then you’d be best to skip this blog for a few days and come back on Saturday – I wonder whether Ralph could do a Hen Harrier cartoon? We’ll see. Last week I launched an e-petition calling on Defra to ban driven grouse shooting in England. It wasn’t…
Hen Harrier day in the Peak District – where shall we go?
Interest is certainly growing in Hen Harrier Day – 10 August 2014. This event, to protest (peacefully and legally) against the illegal killing of Hen Harriers will take place in Lancashire (though I don’t know much about that), Northumberland, Durham, Yorkshire and Derbyshire. I have the challenge of organising the Derbyshire event. I have quite…
Hen Harrier Day
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I was a bit nervous parking my car with its rear tyres overlapping the double yellow lines. Most of the car was OK but those rear tyres were on the double yellows. And I was parking outside the police station. I went into the cop shop, I won’t say which one (it’s good to keep…
Upland balance
Last week I spent two enjoyable days at Newton Rigg at a conference on the future of the uplands. The two days were quite enjoyable and very interesting. I may write a blog or two about the conference because it was so interesting. Hen Harriers were mentioned a few times even before my talk, the…
Malta Massacre discussed in Parliament thanks to Sir John Randall
This blog is a fan of Sir John Randall, Conservative MP for Uxbridge. John is a birder and understands the environment better than most. He’s also a really nice guy. Last week, whilst I was away trying, without much success, to see some Hen Harriers, John organised a Westminster Hall debate on the terrible state…
BBC Wildlife – Hen Harriers, Buzzards and Red Grouse
The article by Amy-Jane Beer in this month’s BBC Wildlife is certainly worth a read. It’s also worth a look – Laurie Campbell’s photographs are stunning. You should buy the magazine to see the images and read the words – and there is plenty more to enjoy in the magazine’s pages of course. The current…
BBC Wildlife – the landowners speak
In the same, current, issue of BBC Wildlife magazine in which I am ‘quoted’, so is Tim Baynes of the Scottish Land and Estates. He gets 50+ words to explain why we need grouse shoots. He gets off to a very bad start in a wildlife magazine by writing ‘The red grouse is the only…
BBC Wildlife – I have a small grouse
BBC Wildlife is a pretty good magazine, but I have a bit of a grouse with them. In the current issue (May – a lion on the cover) there is an article on Hen Harriers (to which I shall return more fully later today) in which I am quoted (as is Tim Baynes of Scottish…