HEN HARRIER DAY

SAVE OUR  SKYDANCERS  -  SAVE OUR HEN HARRIERS.

BAN DRIVEN GROUSE SHOOTING

HELP MAKE A DIFFERENCE

SIGN THE PETITION

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/65627

“First they will ignore you, then they will laugh at you, then they will fight you, then you will win.”

                       Gandhi (Quoted by Chris Packham, Hen Harrier day 10/08/14)


The inglorious twelfth has dawned but the fight goes on.

Members of Liverpool RSPB braved the wrath hurricane Big Bertha along with hundreds of others to support the Hen Harrier day.  

Dunsop Bridge protest

A soggy but inspiring day at Dunsop Bridge .  Terry from the Northwest Raptor Group gave us a talk on the persecution of raptors in the Bowland area, maddening tales of shot adults and ‘trodden into the ground’ chicks, and not just Harriers, Peregrines and the sad tale of the Bowland Goshawk, stopped from nesting in at tree, chose to nest on the ground…returning conservationists checking on it, found the nest trashed, eggs smashed, adult  shot dead.

Terry and Andrea made it to Northumberland to protest  

Northumberland protest

Lots of info on the internet, lots of pics from the  3 protest sites on twitter 

@birdersagainst 

@ChrisGPackham 

@MarkAvery

@RSPB_Skydancer 

  

MARK AVERY & CHRIS PACKHAM

Watch an extended version of the Hen Harrier video, more footage form Chris Packham explaining why.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyIPqE50OYU

http://birdersagainst.org/glorious/

http://www.rspb.org.uk/community/ourwork/b/investigations/archive/2014/08/10/singing-in-the-rain.aspx

  

http://raptorpolitics.org.uk/

http://markavery.info/blog/

http://www.chrispackham.co.uk/

Findley Wilde's H Harrier

Findlay Wilde  @WildeAboutBirds

 http://wildeaboutbirds.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/10th-august-hen-harrier-day.html

AN INSPIRING YOUNG MAN

General information about Hen Harrier Day 2014 

Hen Harrier Day 2014 is Sunday 10 August.

Hen Harrier Day 2014 is an opportunity for people to express their outrage at the illegal killing of the protected Hen Harrier by grouse moor interests.  Science says there should be 300+ pairs of Hen Harrier nesting in England – this year has seen just three pairs.

Hen Harrier Day 2014 is supported by: the RSPB, the Wildlife Trusts, the National Trust, the Hawk and Owl Trust, the League Against Cruel Sports, the Peak District National Park, Birdwatch magazine, Rare Bird Alert, Welsh Ornithological Society and Quaker Concern for Animals.

There are three events planned for Hen Harrier Day where people can gather together in Lancashire (the Forest of Bowland), Northumberland (South Tyne Trail at Lambley) and the Peak District (event full).

Links

http://markavery.info/hen-harrier-day-2014/

http://raptorpolitics.org.uk/2014/08/02/rspb-picks-a-fight-over-grouse-shooting-2/

http://birdersagainst.org/hen-harrier-day-overview/

http://www.chrispackham.co.uk/

http://www.rspb.org.uk/supporting/campaigns/hen-harrier-appeal/index.aspx

It is easy to sit up and take notice,
What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

BOWLAND BETTY

TAKE ACTION ON HEN HARRIER DAY

Hen Harrier 'Bowland Betty'

LEST WE FORGET BOWLAND BETTY

http://liverpoolrspb.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/hen-harrier-on-brink-of-extinction-in.html

The concept of Hen Harrier Day was inspired last year by Alan Tilmouth (you can read about it on his blog, here   http://dustybins.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/hen-harrier-day.html)  It was an inspired move – basically for conservationists to take back the so-called ‘Glorious 12th’ (the opening of the grouse- shooting season) and celebrate this beautiful bird that has virtually been ‘cleansed’ from the grouse moors of northern England (and most grouse moors in Scotland, too).

Last year, Hen Harrier Day was celebrated by hundreds of people using the #HenHarrier hash tag on Twitter and other social media. This year, the campaign is going to be even more visible with a series of planned public protests in the northern uplands.

The newly-formed campaign group Birders Against Wildlife Crime (http://birdersagainst.org/) has joined forces with Mark Avery to organise four legal, peaceful and media-friendly public protests in four counties where grouse-shooting is a dominant force: Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Cumbria and Northumberland.

The date for the protests has been set as Sunday 10th August 2014. This date was chosen in preference to the inglorious 12th (which falls on a Tues this year) to enable more people to attend.

According to Mark Avery, (http://markavery.info/2014/05/05/hen-harrier-day-10-august-2014/)  so far over 200 people have emailed to say they’d like to be involved. This is a fantastic opportunity to make a lot of noise about a subject that has received relatively little media attention in relation to the severity of the situation. The Hen Harrier has virtually been wiped out as a breeding species from England, and is in serious decline in large areas of Scotland (predominantly those areas used for driven grouse shooting).

Enough is enough and it’s time to fight back.

For further information, check out the Hen Harrier Day campaign on the BAWC website  -http://birdersagainst.org/projects/hen-harrier-day/

To express an interest in taking part and to receive updates about the protests, please email Mark Avery: mark@markavery.info

Read how a Perthshire farmer feels
http://gentleotterblog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/imposing-culture.html?spref=tw

It is easy to sit up and take notice,
What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Laura