End the killing of wildlife on grouse moors and elsewhere in Scotland

What it asks

What the petitioner did first

1. 5 Dec 2019
   Public Petitions Committee

   New Petitions
   1 mention
2. 10 Sep 2020
   Public Petitions Committee

   Continued Petitions
   1 mention
3. 23 Feb 2021
   Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee

   Petitions
   1 mention

1. England2,043 29%
2. United Kingdom1,865 26.4%
3. Scotland1,835 26%
4. United States469 6.6%
5. Wales168 2.4%
6. Canada96 1.4%
7. France78 1.1%
8. Germany48 0.7%
9. Australia47 0.7%
10. Netherlands35 0.5%
11. 60 other countries372 5.3%

1. Ian Thomson 4 Oct 2019
   The factory-farming of red grouse for shooting has proven links to wildlife crime and biodiversity loss. So-called "legal" traps are routinely misused or are deployed to deliberately target protected wildlife, such as pine martens, otters, badgers or birds of prey. The unsustainable management of our moors has to stop.
2. Mr Tim Cosford 4 Oct 2019
   I strongly support a full review of the animal welfare impacts of the use of traps and snares on grouse moors and elsewhere in Scotland
3. Janice Morritt 4 Oct 2019
   Agree with the statement below. Animals and other wildlife are not here for our entertainment to kill and destroy. We are supposed to be civilised!!
4. Barbara Douglas 4 Oct 2019
   Lets recognise that we all want to live on this planet whether we are human or animal without being injured or killed for so called sport.
5. Leslene Dunn 4 Oct 2019
   I hope all the revolting vile humans that lay these traps fall into it themselves so they can feel the pain and suffering an innocent animals feels
6. Jacqueline Noltingk 4 Oct 2019
   Action is urgently needed because of the suffering being causes and because of the appalling decline in wildlife in Scotland and the UK as a whole.
7. llund Badham 4 Oct 2019
   Man thinks he is above nature. Never , its impossible.Leave nature alone .
8. Humberto gonzalez 4 Oct 2019
   Some day will be alone in this plant , there will be no more animals to keep us company , what a sad day that will be
9. Nikki Green 4 Oct 2019
   Surely we have moved on enough as a society to know that this needle is killing is wrong. Please be an example for many parts of the world in being a voice for the voiceless. Thank you
10. Joan Pringle 4 Oct 2019
    Time to end this barbaric indiscriminate practice
11. Denise Yarrow 4 Oct 2019
    It is THEIR HOME. Please leave them alone to live their lives peacefully. PLEASE. Thank you.
12. Jacqueline Charters 4 Oct 2019
    Animals deserve better protection than this current Government is giving them. They need to wake up to public opinion and get a conscience of compassion
13. Monica Weller 4 Oct 2019
    Please work to protect and conserve our planet's biodiversity. All of the plants and animals that live here on earth with us deserve their space and to live. Thank you.
14. linda ticehurst 4 Oct 2019
    This is primitive and outdated behaviour and has no place in British society or, indeed, today's world.
15. Fiona Crookes 4 Oct 2019
    Why is one animal more important than another? It's simply wrong that animals are killed for human fun and amusement. Traps cause a slow and painful death. How can this be right?
16. Lisa Wood 4 Oct 2019
    Our wildlife is declining at an alarming rate, native species facing extinction and the threat of collapsing eco systems. Conservation must be our priority now above all!
17. Catherine Williams 4 Oct 2019
    This brutality must stop, the only way is laws with proper punishment for sadistic people.
18. Bernadette Boulton 4 Oct 2019
    Scotland has to recognise the terrible atrocities to wild life and do something about it.
19. Julie Angell 4 Oct 2019
    Time to end the barbaric, indiscriminate cruelty and inhumanity of trapping. Come on Scottish Government. Do something useful for a change and prove that you are not ineffectual middle level bureaucrats just taking a wage & fat pension from the taxpayer.
20. Christopher Panayi 4 Oct 2019
    I believe that the world would like to know why the Scottish government would allow these barbaric practices to continue.
21. Jean Benn 4 Oct 2019
    Please take notice and act on this petition.
22. Carrie Fisher 4 Oct 2019
    We must protect our wildlife, all species, for future generations.
23. Barbara Horton 4 Oct 2019
    Must be stopped,
24. Caroline Moore 4 Oct 2019
    All animals deserve respect and protection.
25. Harry Blair 4 Oct 2019
    Good luck with the petition. Something has to be done to stop the needless slaughter.
26. Victoria logan 4 Oct 2019
    Killing wildlife in such a cruel and unnecessary way belongs in the dark ages. Humans know better now. We need our fellow earthlings to share our planet. Shame on all those animal abusers including gamekeepers and those who are involved in so called game killing and shooting.
27. Fiona Thomas 4 Oct 2019
    I still cannot believe that snare traps are legal. They shouldn't be. I still cannot believe that driven shooting of cage reared grouse is still allowed on the Scottish and English uplands. I still cannot believe that burning heather,slaughtering thousands of mountain hares and denying the ecosystem the time and space to restore itself is allowed. It's barbaric, and in our climate emergency, utterly counterproductive on so many levels.
28. Richard Weale 4 Oct 2019
    Enough savage amusement from the killing industry time to conserve and treasure our wildlife.
29. Steve MacSweeney 4 Oct 2019
    Killing our indigenous wildlife in favour of killing intensively reared birds for recreation should be a criminal offence.
30. Maria Pia 4 Oct 2019
    STOP THIS CRUELTY !!!
31. Michael Sudbury 4 Oct 2019
    It is now the right time to consigne the archaic indulgence of field sports, along with its privileged participants, to the history books. Even more urgent is the moral obligation to rid the countryside of gamekeepers whom, even though denying the fact, are responsible for the illegal killing of any birds of prey encountered. This is no longer a question of personal ethics, but one of modern-day ethics. The people of the world demand that politicians implement rules, regulations, and laws that reflect that we, as a species, are actually moving forward into the future, a future where all living creatures are shown compassion and respect.
32. Sheena Fraser 4 Oct 2019
    Help save the animals future
33. Jemma Meecham 4 Oct 2019
    Please respect our precious wildlife!! We are a civilised country & we must not allow this cruelty to continue. All living beings deserve kindness.
34. Gina Chronowicz 4 Oct 2019
    Wildlife is already struggling in so many areas and should not be suffering further declines to protect grouse for shooting.
35. Tahoe Leigh 4 Oct 2019
    Killing is never the answer to anything and, besides, think about a world without animals if Man keeps killing them to the point of extinction..... Most people LOVE to see Wildlife around them and consider it a bonus if they spot species who normally hide from them!
36. Tahoe Leigh 4 Oct 2019
    Killing is never the answer and, besides, think of a World without animals if Man keeps exterminating them to the point of extinction..... Most people LOVE seeing Wildlife around them and consider it a bonus if they spot species who normally hide from them!
37. Kate Kenner 4 Oct 2019
    No animal should ever have to endure being stick in one of these traps. They are torturous and cruel and in the end the issues thought to exist are not resolved. they will return and animals should not be killed in traps so that hunters can kill them instead. The reasoning is perverse, self centered, human centric, and entitled. Ban the traps now.
38. Hilary Gee 4 Oct 2019
    Much of the killing is unnecessary and ecologically harmful. Where it must happen, the least we can do as humans is to make it humane
    - fast and painless. The traps & poisons & lead shooting are horrible, cruel and we should stop them at once.
39. Judith Page 4 Oct 2019
    To pit dog against dog, use anima traps, poisons of any kind again a wild animal is barbaric. It serves no purpose at all. It is not a sport. It does not protect sheep, chickens that end up on your plate anyway... so why KILL?
40. Ethne Brown 4 Oct 2019
    Please stop animal suffering.
41. Juliette raymond 4 Oct 2019
    Kindness please
42. Jeffery J Biss 4 Oct 2019
    Only a worthless psychopath would trap. Trappers have no claim for mercy and should be granted none. End trapping and punish trappers.
43. Ian Ward 4 Oct 2019
    It is disgusting and puts shame on our country, that we treat our wildlife in such a savage way. The disrespect and brutality inflicted on our wildlife, to suit individual's need of 'entertainment', has no bounds, judging by the violence meted out to species of animals. The brutality towards our wildlife must stop now
44. Greg Windows 4 Oct 2019
    I cannot accept that traps of any kind are used these days to catch kill or maime animals and I hope the Scottish Government (who seem to have a far better history of listening to people than Westminster do) outlaws this barbaric practice.
45. Hazel Grant 4 Oct 2019
    As someone who lives surrounded by land used as grouse moors, I would love to see an end to the killing of wildlife in my area in the name of sport.
46. Jackie Smith 4 Oct 2019
    This is an opportunity to finally ban snares which inflict unnecessary and severe painful death on wildlife and probably domestic animals also
47. Diane Dyson 4 Oct 2019
    Please end the cruel interference with these wild creatures' lives, as they have a right to live, as do human beings!
48. Valerie Nordberg 4 Oct 2019
    These days when wildlife is considered of little value it is imperative we are reminded that EVERYTHING living is interwoven and to create holes in the network through extinction is a disaster for the entirety.
49. David Pritchard 4 Oct 2019
    Scotland's wildlife needs real protection, snares and any form of traps have no place in a modern caring country.
50. Martina Rauhut 4 Oct 2019
    I trust that intelligent people will realize the useless horrific cruelty caused by traps and prohibit them.
    Thank-you.