Campaigners have held a weekend of action in four Yorkshire Coast towns as part of a campaign urging Yorkshire Water to stop leasing moorland for grouse shooting. Yorkshire Water – one of the region’s largest landowners – is being urged to stop leasing moorland for grouse shooting, with over 1,000 people […]
United Utilities has actively enforced its newly-adopted policy which prohibits the use of stink pits – piles of rotting animals, laid by gamekeepers to entice opportunistic wild-animals into awaiting snares – following discovery of one of the heaps of carcasses on a moor leased by the company for grouse shooting. The […]
The Labour Party and Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Sue Hayman MP, have called for a public inquiry into grouse shooting this evening , citing the negative impact the practice has on wildlife, habitat, tourism and the regional economy. The move comes amid some of the region’s most prominent […]
Nearly 100 campaigners protested in Hebden Bridge on Saturday lunchtime to urge Yorkshire Water to drop grouse shooting from moorland across the region, on the day before the season opens.Carrying placards which read “Yorkshire Water: End Grouse Shooting”, nearly 100 campaigners from Wild Moors and the League Against Cruel Sports (LACS) […]
Yorkshire Water is facing growing calls to stop leasing moorland for grouse shooting because of considerable damage to wildlife and the environment, including decomposing animals being left to rot in jaw-like traps on Stanbury Moor, West Yorkshire – one of thirteen owned by the company on which grouse shooting is permitted […]
