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Wildlife Welfare thread
Toon-Mick:
This is my first thread on here so please be kind to me.
Some of you may know that on the 12th August the Grouse shooting season opens. Grouse shooting may be seen as a way of people shooting for the table and it is. The price of Driven Grouse Shooting is usually £1000's of pounds and it's classed as a 'sport' of the rich. In reality we all pay for it, we subsidise gun licences and we also subsidise the moors themselves through the EU and almost certainly from the government once we leave the EU. We do and will do this while people use food banks, pay the bedroom tax and others struggle to have a comfortable life.
Other than that, the Grouse moors are bereft of anything other than an animal which is reared to shoot so that the rich can have fun. Gamekeepers kill our native wildlife to protect Grouse so that rich people can kill Grouse for 'fun'.
Stoats, Weasels, Fox, Scottish Wild Cats, pet Cats, pet Dogs, Magpies, Hen Harriers, Red Kites, Golden Eagles, Peregrine Falcon, Buzzards, Common Gulls, Mountain Hares are killed in their hundreds, possibly thousands, Ring Ouzel, Badger, Crow, Rabbitt, Deer, Pheasant, Red and Black Grouse, Short Eared Owl, Kestrel, Jackdaw, Sparrow Hawk, Partridge, Raven and Pine Martin are all killed by either shooting, poisoning or trapping.
Other problems caused by Grouse shooting is floods caused by water running off the barren moors, some of this is on purpose as drainage ditches are created to keep the moors dry because the Grouse like it that way.
Many tonnes of lead are fired into the environment and some of that ends up in the birds which is sometimes sold in supermarkets or worse, given to food banks and given to the less well off.
Some of the animals killed, well, a lot of the animals killed are left lying around and surrounded by snares so that more animals can be killed.
Can I ask all UK citizens to sign the petition created by Dr Mark Avery (former Conservation Director of the RSPB and supported by Chris Packam, DR Brian May, Bill Oddie and many others.
The petition is trying to reach 100,000 signatures by 30th September and has reached 72,000 within the last hour. 100,000 signatures will give us a chance to have a debate in parliament and we can take the issue to another level. It is unlikely that Driven Grouse Shooting will be banned but this will put pressure on people to stop the slaughter of our wildlife.
A lot of people may not care about what happens on the moors but we all should because once our wildlife had gone, it's gone. By signing the petition you're giving yourself the chance to see wildlife which may become extinct, at least in England. We should have more than 300 breeding pairs of Hen Harriers, this year we have 3 breeding pairs and not one of those is on a Grouse moor which is perfect habitat for them.
Please sign https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/125003 and ask your family and friends to do the same.
Here's some videos if anybody want to know more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHAzbAvr8Xg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8YjOa0xVJk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EljC03eMY54
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0-TSQfSpMw
Thanks.
cloggypop:
Needs a link to the petition
cloggypop:
It's just on Tapatalk that it's not showing.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/125003
Toon-Mick:
Here's another couple of videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RROGOOYibQ0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbDYowcccWg
Corkboy:
Anyone who kills animals for "sport" or "fun" is a piece of shit.
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