Our Woodcock petition passes 70,000, 71,000 and 72,000 signatures

Our petition to limit the Woodcock shooting season is going great guns – if you’ll pardon the expression. Yesterday it passed 70,000, 71,000 and 72,000 signatures!

Here again are the leading constituencies – 16 of them – all with more than 300 signatures, and West Dorset now way out in front with over 500;

1. 1. West Dorset, Chris Loder MP – 556 signatures
   2. North Norfolk, Duncan Baker MP – 458 signatures
   3. Suffolk Coastal, Therese Coffey MP – 449 signatures
   4. Central Devon, Mel Stride MP – 427 signatures
   5. Torridge and West Devon, Geoffrey Cox MP – 417 signatures
   6. South Norfolk, Richard Bacon MP – 405 signatures
   7. Derbyshire Dales, Sarah Dines MP – 401 signatures
   8. North Dorset, Simon Hoare MP – 371 signatures
   9. Broadland, Jerome Mayhew MP – 364 signatures
   10. S Dorset, Richard Drax MP – 357 signatures
   11. Norwich S, Clive Lewis MP – 349 signatures
   12. Mid Norfolk, George Freeman MP – 343 signatures
   13. Totnes, Anthony Mangnall MP – 342 signatures
   14. High Peak, Robert Largan MP – 329 signatures
   15. North Devon, Selaine Saxby MP – 321 signatures
   16. Tiverton & Honiton, Richard Foord MP – 310 signatures
   17. North West Norfolk, James Wild MP – 305 signatures
   18. East Devon, Simon Juppy MP – 307 signatures

Here’s a map of where the signatures come from – everywhere! But SW England and East Anglia are particularly strong areas of support. It’s good to see that Therese Coffey’s constituents are still sending the Defra Secretary of State a strong message on what she should do.

For the last 58 days and for the next 3 days it is legal to shoot Woodcock in the UK – we are trying to change that. We want the shooting season curtailed to protect the declining UK breeding population. Our petition calls for shooting to cease in October and November and be limited to December and January. This is even what some shooters and shooting organisations want but they are prepared to leave it up to the good will of shooters to abstain from a legal activity whereas we want the shooting season to stipulate no shooting in October and November.

Westminster Parliament petitions run for 6 months, and we still have just under two months to go. We’re hopeful that we will reach 100,000. We need your help – not just in signing the petition yourself but in finding a few others to sign it too.

Every signature counts, whether it is the 13th in Foyle or the 560th in West Dorset. 

Please share the petition link – https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/619615 – you can help move things along even faster. Thank you.

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