Mark ♦ November 24, 2011 ♦ 8 Comments Please sign this
e-petition and pass it on to others. It’s just over 1000
signatures as I post this. Britain’s land owning sporting gentry
have taken very little if any notice at all of current or past
legislation introduced by government to protect raptors
throughout our countryside. During the last decade the hen
harrier Recovery Project has seen shooting and conservation
interests come together to discuss ways forward to protect
harriers on England’s uplands. Throughout these lengthy
negotiations sporting estates in England and their
representatives have been giver every opportunity to get their
house in order but still the slaughter has continued. There are
those from the shooting community who constantly rabbit on about
the odd rouge gamekeeper, but the reality is very simple.
Although England has sufficient habitat for 300 pairs of hen
harriers this year there were only 4 successful breeding pairs
in the whole country. Indeed there are now less harriers on our
uplan