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Message: <blockquote data-quote="King Edward" data-source="post: 3257036" data-attributes="member: 80872">The RSPB charter does include a caveat on the shooting question:So while not opposing legal shooting as such, the RSPB would be well within its charter to oppose various associated practices. I think a lot of RSPB members (and staff/volunteers) would also be concerned about the RSPB actually promoting shooting for sport (i'm not sure how seriously you were actually suggesting this).More fundamentally though, it's doubtful the extent to which healthy predator populations can coexist with grouse shooting, especially driven shooting (as in Mark Avery's petition) which requires a large surplus of birds to shoot.Out of interest, what's your view on this if we assume (for the sake of argument) that high value driven grouse shooting is only viable with ongoing illegal raptor persecution? Does the economic value justify the inherent criminality?</blockquote>