Still sabbing the bastards
Police have released an image of a man they believe can help with their investigation into an incident of a badger sett being tampered with at Old Dalby. Wednesday, 1st April 2020 They have described the filling in of the sett. which happened sometime overnight on Monday December 9, as ‘an act of appalling cruelty’. …
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https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/bovine-tb-summary-of-badger-control-monitoring-during-2019/summary-of-2019-badger-control-operations Natural England Chief Scientist’s advice on the outcome of badger control operations 27th March 2020 Effectiveness of industry-led culling The outcome of this year’s operations indicates that industry-led badger control continues to deliver the level of effectiveness required by the policy to be confident of achieving disease control benefits: New areas licensed in 2019 …
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From Cheshire Hunt Sabs In England - 34,717 badgers killed. While our attention is understandably concerned with a pandemic of a zoonotic disease sweeping through the world, the government have decided to sneak out into the public domain the mortality figures of another zoonotic disease, although these figures are not from the victims of the …
8th March 2020 Paul Bowes , 29, of Rochester Close in Bishop Auckland, will appear at Hull Magistrates’ Court for trial on July 28, 2020, after pleading not guilty to hunting a wild animal with a dog and causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal, a brown hare, by standing on the hare while allowing …
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6th March 2020 Two pensioners who shared shocking footage of hunting hounds mauling a deer say they feel threatened after a dead badger appeared on their property. Margaret Langran, 68, said the bloody body of a badger was left on her driveway just one day after she shared a video of a hunt to this …
A man who was convicted of badger baiting has won an appeal against a court's verdict. Jamie Rush was one of four men found guilty in October of attempting to kill or take badgers in Pembrokeshire. He was jailed for 22 weeks after a trial at Cardiff Crown Court, following an undercover investigation by BBC …
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Chris Packham has branded Cambridge University’s move to cover a row of trees with nets to stop birds from nesting as “absolutely outrageous”, with activists from Extinction Rebellion responding by tearing some of the netting down. The conservationist’s social media post was prompted by photographs of the trees, with their branches completely encased in netting, on …
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25th February 2020 Yovanis Cruz, who keeps racing pigeons, admitted killing the protected hawk by firing ball bearings at it with a catapult after it attacked one of his birds The crime was caught on CCTV by a neighbour’s camera Cruz, who ‘acted without mercy’, was fined £801 at Portsmouth Magistrates’ Court today (25 February) …
19th February 2020 A 60-year-old pigeon fancier has been fined for shooting and killing a sparrowhawk. Duncan Cowan, from Cowie in Stirlingshire was fined £450 after pleading guilty to a charge under section 1(1)(a) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 at Stirling Sheriff Court. The court heard that on the afternoon of 18 April …
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BEWARE HORRIBLE VIDEO Footage by Norfolk and Suffolk Against Live Quarry Hunting. Please turn on your sound as it adds a lot to the video. On Tuesday 18th February 2020, 15 years to the day after the Hunting Act came into force, monitors filmed Waveney Harriers hounds chasing a deer into a fence and then repeatedly …
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