Harry’s Girl killed at Royal Ascot – another victim of this abusive industry
Posted 18 Jun 2025
Posted on the 4th August 2023
United Utilities, England’s largest corporate landowner, recently announced that it would not be renewing grouse shooting licences on its land. The company released a statement which read:
“Instead of being maintained for grouse shooting, the company’s water catchment moors will be restored for nature, climate and people.”
This is fantastic news and will hopefully encourage other landowners to prohibit the killing of live birds, for sport or any other reason, on their land.
As well as the grouse who suffer and die, grouse moor managers brutally kill and maim huge numbers of wild animals in order to protect their profits. They also leave vast swathes of precious peatland burnt dry and scarred with vehicle tracks. This is all done so that unnaturally large populations of red grouse can be nurtured, on the moors, as live targets for wealthy ‘guns’.
Grouse shooting is unnatural, uncontrolled and unkind. Fight back and order leaflets, ahead of the grouse shooting season, which starts on 12 August.
Here are some ways to help the campaign:
Posted 18 Jun 2025
This week (17th-21st June) sees Royal Ascot unfurl: an event in the flat-racing calendar which has become shrouded in associations with ‘royalty’, ‘glamour’ and ‘elitism’. However, behind this fairy-tale veneer lies a disturbing reality –...
Posted 16 Jun 2025