Rural gangs linked to drug operations

Poaching and hare coursing gangs often linked with major drugs operations are behind most crimes against wildlife. In Cumbria last year, 363 wildlife crimes were reported to the police and of those 211 involved poaching, hare coursing and lamping – hunting animals at night with high-powered lights. In one incident at Sandysyke near Longtown, three [...]

Please, please try and attend this demo

Save the Windermere Geese On Saturday March 10th, there will be a demonstration at Bowness on Windermere (where the lake cruises leave from), from noon. This will be to hand out leaflets telling residents and visitors how they can help stop the killing. If you would like to read more about this proposed cull, please [...]

Second Lanarkshire gamekeeper convicted of poisoning offences

A 63 year old man has today (12th January 2012) been convicted of possessing a highly toxic banned pesticide At Lanark Sheriff Court this afternoon, Cyril McLachlan was fined £635 after admitting to the possession of Carbofuran, a toxic pesticide banned in 2001. The gamekeeper, with 40 years experience, was arrested during an operation by [...]

Prolific egg thief jailed for third time

An egg collector has been jailed for stealing hundreds of eggs from birds including a golden eagle and osprey. More than 700 eggs – stolen from nests in Scotland and Essex – camouflage clothing, climbing equipment and maps of nesting spots were found at the home of Matthew Gonshaw in Bow, east London. Gonshaw, 49, [...]

My homage to the ‘good old gamekeeper’

With the grouse season about to start on the 12th August and the pheasant season starting on 1st October I thought I would put a few articles up all about the ‘good old gamekeeper‘. Former Holkham Estate gamekeeper given conditional discharge Derbyshire gamekeeper guilty of trapping birds of prey Gamekeeper fined for wilfully killing badger Gamekeeper fined [...]

Article on North Wales gamekeeper

Please can you post a comment or send a letter about the article below, I have never read so much rubbish in my life. Gamekeeping is a way of life http://www.dailypost.co.uk/farming-north-wales/farming-news/2011/06/02/gamekeeping-is-a-way-of-life-find-out-more-55578-28805622

Member of shooting syndicate blasted swan dead

A MEMBER of an exclusive £2,000-a-year shooting syndicate killed a young swan after mistaking it for a goose and gunning it down with both barrels of his 12-gauge shotgun, a court was told yesterday. Harrogate magistrates heard how electrical company director and divorced father-of-two Simon Quince fatally injured the juvenile male swan while taking part [...]

What a waste of lives, money and time

£1.3m hedgehog cull to save islands’ birds eggs ‘fails’ 20 February 2011 By Craig Brown and Nick Eardley EIGHT years on, £1.3 million spent and more than 1500 hedgehogs killed or relocated. But a new report on the attempt to eradicate the animals from the Western Isles in order to protect wading birds says there [...]

Vermin Patrol 2010 – Part 2

Now updated http://nwhsa.redblackandgreen.net/vermin_patrol_2010_part_2.html

The Truth About Hoghton Tower

Hoghton Tower, near Blackburn Hoghton Tower may seem like a peaceful family attraction, but it hides a darker secret. Once they close their doors to the public thousands of ducks and pheasants are used as live targets for shooting practice. Animal welfare groups are campaigning peacefully to make the public aware of the death sentence [...]