Video exposes game-bird shooting industry’s secret carnage of UK wildlife

22nd September 2018 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/game-birds-shooting-season-pheasants-larsen-traps-somerset-animal-aid-a8549001.html Exclusive: 'These traps all over the countryside are a dirty secret of pheasant-rearing: confining highly intelligent birds causes injury and enormous stress' Gamekeepers have been catching wild birds in traps and leaving them in distress for up to two days, to prop up the game-bird shooting industry. Undercover footage taken on …

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Convicted hare courser involved in £100m drug dealing ring

21st September 2018 A man who was convicted of hare coursing in Lincolnshire has now been imprisoned following an investigation into a £100m drug dealing ring. Thomas Jaffray has been jailed for 13 years and 4 months after being found guilty of conspiracy to supply cocaine, amphetamine and cannabis, and conspiracy to launder the proceeds …

BREAKING: Pheasant shooting will end on Welsh public land

Posted 20th September, 2018 Natural Resources Wales has agreed to end pheasant shooting on Welsh public land during a key meeting this afternoon, in a landmark move which has been welcomed by leading wildlife-protection organisations. The announcement comes off the back of a three-year-long campaign by Animal Aid and the League Against Cruel Sports, which …

Huge increase in badger cull will see up to 42,000 shot

13th Sept 2018 The controversial badger cull in England has been hugely expanded into 10 new areas, with up to 42,000 animals now due to be shot in an attempt to curb tuberculosis in cattle, up from 32,500 last year. The farming minister George Eustice claimed the cull is starting to show results in Gloucestershire …

MASSIVE GDPR BREACH FROM BADGER KILLER’S ACCOUNTANTS

The badger cull companies are run by small groups of farmers, those farmers that organise have to correctly account for all the money they take from the hundreds of farmers who have paid, in each of the cull zones. This money runs into the hundreds of thousands in many zones, which in turn runs into …

Gwent residents accused over alleged fox cub deaths appear in court

31st August 2018 Julie Elmore, Nathan Parry, and Paul Reece were charged earlier this year after a police inquiry into alleged cruelty at a hunting kennel in south Herefordshire. The charges relate to foxes which are alleged to have been killed between May 13 and May 28 2016 at Wormelow, Herefordshire. Elmore, aged 55, and …

Employee cautioned over animal welfare offences at prestigious Chargot Estate shoot

30th August 2018 AN employee at one of the most exclusive and expensive shoots in the country - the Chargot Estate in Luxborough, West Somerset - has been cautioned for offences under the Animal Welfare Act and Game Act. The case was brought following an undercover investigation Animal Aid, which has campaigned against the bird-shooting …

gamekeeper convicted for killing two short-eared owls on grouse moor in yorkshire dales national park

28th August 2018 A gamekeeper was convicted at Lancaster Magistrates Court this morning for the killing of two short-eared owls on a grouse moor in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Timothy David Cowin, 44, pleaded guilty to shooting the owls on the Whernside Estate in Cumbria (inside the Yorkshire Dales National Park boundary) and to …

Prince George ‘taken to first royal grouse shoot at Balmoral with mum Kate to watch William hunt’

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/prince-george-taken-first-royal-13142109 What a fine upstanding family they are North West Hunt Saboteurs Association 07960 038230 http://www.nwhsa.org.uk You can also donate via the link above Direct Action Against All Forms of bloodsports

Dog left to die after being used for badger baiting in a sett

23rd August 2018 A dog is recovering after it was apparently used in badger baiting. Snickers, a Patterdale terrier bitch, was found with injuries to her face, neck and torso when she was dumped in Smallfield, Surrey, earlier this month Her rescuers said that her injuries are as a result of the illegal practice of …