Still sabbing the bastards
NORTH Wales must not become a 'soft touch' for illegal hunting says Wrexham's Assembly Member, Lesley Griffiths. She has spoken out following the publication of police figures which reveal that in the past three years not one single prosecution has been brought in the region as the result of reports from the public about suspected …
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Police said the birds were being kept in cages in the house's garage and each fight would involve a pair being put into a single cage. Around 150 canaries and saffron finches were confiscated after officers raided a family home in the town of Shelton on Sunday. Male canaries are notoriously territorial and often fight …
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More than 50 peregrine falcons have been poisoned, trapped, shot or had their chicks stolen this year, according to reports, in one of the worst years on record for persecution of the protected bird. More than 50 peregrine falcons have been found poisoned, trapped or shot this year - RSPB The Royal Society for the …
David Taylor MP has tabled an Early Day Motion (EDM 1684) calling for a ban on the production of birds for ‘sport’ shooting. It is vital that you contact your MP and ask him or her to sign this EDM before Parliament breaks up for its summer recess (21 July - 12 October). Every year, …
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A man described key player in a major dog-fighting scene has been sentenced to four months in jail and banned from keeping dogs for life. Barkat Hussain, 44, from Unett Street, Smethwick, West Midlands, trained pit-bull terriers for fighting and kept related medical supplies. He admitted keeping and training pit-bulls dogs in breach of a …
The RSPCA has said it will continue to gather evidence and prosecute men who dig out badgers and kill them. It follows the convictions last week of two men for badger digging and other offences. They will be sentenced next month by magistrates at Shrewsbury. An RSPCA inspector secretly filmed the men, from Lancashire and …
Two men have been found guilty of badger digging* after they were caught in the act by an undercover RSPCA inspector. Gerard Monk and Paul Billington were filmed digging a badger sett in woodland at Sandford near Whitchurch on 11 May last year. They fled the scene after realising they had been watched. Both men …
Police and bird conservation experts seized more than 5000 eggs in a raid on a home in a Scots village, it was revealed yesterday. Officers from Lothian and Borders Police and Tayside Police, along with representatives from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), took the haul from a house in Torphichen, near …
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MAGISTRATE Nick Negus has offered to help the Forestry Commission cull wild boar in the Forest of Dean. The keen hunter and parish councillor, who has spent decades travelling to the forests of Germany and Croatia to shoot boar, told the Forestry Commission he knew people who could do the job with the right weapons. …
Hunt supporter Benjamin James Elliot was ordered to pay £1,065 in fines and costs yesterday after magistrates watched 30 minutes of film footage showing him using his Land Rover to stop a hunt monitor's car travelling freely on a Dorset road. The prosecution told magistrates at Blandford that Elliot's manner of driving was "designed to …
