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PE01850: Natural flood prevention on grouse moors

Environment Energy

Petitioner: Les Wallace

Status:
Open

Closing Date for Online Petition: 04 March 2021

Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to make the use of natural flood prevention methods a condition for obtaining a grouse moor licence.

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Do you agree that a licencing system should be put in place to prevent damage to homes and that livelihoods downstream aren’t compromised in order to shoot more grouse?

How much longer does the general public have to put up with the current situation where almost all living things are eradicated in the attempt to rear grouse at 40 times their natural levels so a very few rich and privileged people can blast as many as possible out of the sky for fun. It is a disgrace and needs to end.

Mal Taylor

14:17 on 27 Jan 2021

Environmental demands are much more important than the profits amassed by the owners of the moors. Defend our flora and fauna. Raptors require protection. Ban grouse shooting.

Lorna McAllister

13:49 on 27 Jan 2021

Shooting is now well known to detrimental to all wildlife. Uplands should now be returned to forest.

peter fox

13:33 on 27 Jan 2021

Ban all grouse shooting.

Kat Dolan

11:11 on 27 Jan 2021

Flood and drought prevention (woodland and wetland sponges), clean air (no muirburn) and access to Nature are all public goods. Moorland can provide all these but not when it's trashed for driven grouse shooting to provide fun for a tiny number of rich people. DGS should be banned along with all these damaging practices and land managers paid instead to provide these public goods and ecosystem services to benefit all in Scotland.

Nonie Coulthard

10:46 on 27 Jan 2021

Must end, save our wildlife and environment.

Robert kirby

9:27 on 27 Jan 2021

The proposed measures would also reduce Scotland's carbon footprint, reduce erosion, and reduce water pollution and improve the biodiversity of both the affected lands and the watercourses that are fed by them.

M J Quirke

8:21 on 27 Jan 2021

The rich are to blame, its only those who are destroying our moorlands.

Roy Hicks

8:13 on 27 Jan 2021

Wherever your home is, grouse moor management impacts the quality and protection of your nation environment. It is a practice in denial of knowledge

IA Kirk

7:54 on 27 Jan 2021

I object on the grounds of cruelty to wildlife. Straw burning was banned years ago.Burning Heather creates the same pollutants which damage the environment

Paul m Ryland

11:37 on 26 Jan 2021

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