Tag: hunting

  • Ban Driven Grouse Shooting

    Ban Driven Grouse Shooting

    By Elena Grice

    Our friends over at Wild Justice have a petition to ban driven grouse shooting that is currently about 16,000 signatures off the required 100,000 to be debated in public. With moorland burning leading to carbon emissions, out-of-control wildfires, damage that leads to flooding, as well as air pollution and raptor persecution, driven grouse shooting needs…

  • Snares and Rewilding

    Snares and Rewilding

    Snares are now banned in Wales, and Scotland is considering it too, though as yet there are no signs of consideration in England. But what are the actual effects on wildlife? And is there a place for snares in a rewilded world?

  • Grouse shooting and rewilding

    Grouse shooting and rewilding

    Grouse moors are not land for food production, purely for sport, and 1.4% of the entire land of Britain is given over to ecologically damaging practices such as burning peat and ‘predator control’.

  • Deer Stalking and Rewilding

    Deer Stalking and Rewilding

    Deer-stalking and rewilding are more closely intertwined than many may think, with arguable positives and negatives. Deer-stalking, more than any other kind of hunting, highlights some of the key issues that rewilding faces.

  • Gamebirds and Rewilding

    Gamebirds and Rewilding

    Hunting is a contentious subject and can raise a lot of emotions on both sides. But moving aside from the morality of hunting, what is the effect on the environment of releasing captive-bred gamebirds like pheasants and red-legged partridges?

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