{"id":694,"date":"2025-04-19T09:39:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T08:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/molescroftwn.org\/?p=694"},"modified":"2025-04-19T09:39:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T08:39:37","slug":"petition-to-ban-driven-grouse-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/molescroftwn.org\/?p=694","title":{"rendered":"Petition to ban driven grouse shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Chris Packham, Ruth Tingay and Mark Avery (Wild Justice) believe that driven grouse shooting is bad for people, the environment and wildlife. People; and think grouse shooting is economically insignificant when contrasted with other real and potential uses of the UK\u2019s extensive uplands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you feel the same, there is a <a href=\"https:\/\/petition.parliament.uk\/petitions\/700036\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/petition.parliament.uk\/petitions\/700036\">petition here <\/a>for people to sign, that is very close to the 100,000 signatures to be considered for debate in the House of Commons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first attempt to get a petition like this through, and if you&#8217;re interested in a deeper read about the impact of this &#8216;sport&#8217; then you can look at some of the written evidence that was <a href=\"https:\/\/committees.parliament.uk\/writtenevidence\/73043\/html\/\">previously submitted<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/spotlight_double_desk_wide\/public\/2017-12\/Red%20grouse%202%20%28c%29%20Margaret%20Holland.webp\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:500px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Packham, Ruth Tingay and Mark Avery (Wild Justice) believe that driven grouse shooting is bad for people, the environment and wildlife. People; and think grouse shooting is economically insignificant when contrasted with other real and potential uses of the UK\u2019s extensive uplands. If you feel the same, there is a petition here for people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/molescroftwn.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/molescroftwn.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/molescroftwn.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/molescroftwn.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/molescroftwn.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/molescroftwn.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695,"href":"https:\/\/molescroftwn.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions\/695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/molescroftwn.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/molescroftwn.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/molescroftwn.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}