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Updated briefing note for 2016 ###################### Badger Cull 2016 (Gloucestershire) Briefing, Parts 1, 2 & 3 This is a working document which is updated regularly. The cull is about to start very soon and be rolled out to areas with contiguous boundaries to the Gloucestershire cull zone. People and resources are needed in ALL zones …
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Feb 23, 2014 17:28 Figures show that the Crown Estate's 'vermin control' methods wiped out 1,161 rabbits, 118 parakeets, 28 hares and nine moles An animal welfare campaign group has slammed a 'Windsor wildlife massacre' after figures showed more than 7,000 animals were killed on the royal estate in just a single year. The staggering …
21 Feb 2014 AN ARRAN man has admitted illegally setting rabbit traps in a field. Robin Gray, who is 51 and from Whiting Bay, pled guilty by letter to five varying charges all relating to the period between July 9 and August 17 of last year. Kilmarnock Sheriff Court was told that he set Fenn …
A bid to ban badger culling on council-owned land in Devon has been thrown out by members. Labour councillor Jill Owen had submitted a motion to the full council that it should “prohibit badger culling on its land, where it has the legal jurisdiction so to do, and asks that more research be undertaken by …
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By Western Morning News | Posted: January 26, 2014 Youngsters watched on as countrymen with dogs unearthed and shot two foxes, in pictures released by anti-hunt campaigners. The images show children thought to be as young as five standing just yards away as the animals are dug from an old badger sett and killed. The …
By Dominic Dyer, Care for the Wild International In between taking calls from senior editors of national newspapers asking me if I could confirm reports that Environment Minister Owen Paterson was on a skiing holiday in France, leaving David Cameron to face the anger of flood victims, I spend some of my Christmas break getting …
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The cost of the badger cull pilots in Somerset and Gloucestershire has been put at £4,100 per badger shot, campaigners claim – and put the cost of a four-year trial at £19 million. Animal charity Care for the Wild almost doubled its previous estimate, made in October, of £2,200 per animal, and now puts the …
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An SSPCA image showing a dog following a fight with a badger. IT IS a barbaric crime that stirs such visceral revulsion that it was outlawed almost 200 years ago. However, an undercover investigator for the Scottish SPCA has revealed that badger baiting is thriving in 21st-century Scotland. Hundreds of incidents related to the illegal …
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A part-time gamekeeper has been ordered to pay more than £500 by a court – after admitting setting an illegal trap in Shropshire designed to harm birds of prey. Wayne Edward Priday, of Leintwardine, was caught after investigating officers from charity the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds visited a pheasant release …
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