Still sabbing the bastards
The presenter of the BBC television programme Countryfile, Adam Henson, a farmer, used his own herd for an item about bovine tuberculosis (bTB) on Sunday February 27. He showed himself unaware of recent reductions in the levels of infection and repeatedly implied, wrongly, that the disease was intractable. This shallow and amateurish item was unworthy of …
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An Angus country sports enthusiast was fined £200 on Thursday, becoming one of the first people to be prosecuted under laws relating to the use of snares. George Whitehead admitted two charges relating to a section of the Wildlife and Countryside Act to control the use of snares after two badly-set devices were discovered in …
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Published: 20/02/2011 Three men were caught hare coursing at Six Mile Bottom on August 20. Joseph Smith, 51, of Paddock Wood, Kent, William Smith, 42, of Willingham Avenue, Hastings, and Buddy Jarrett, 19, of Atterbury Close, Westerham, Kent, had travelled up to Cambridgeshire from East Sussex. They were convicted at Ely Magistrates’ Court on January …
BADGER baiting sicko Wayne Lumsden is plotting an early release from prison. The yob, jailed for animal cruelty, is fighting against his sentence. Lumsden, 23, of Lynemouth, Northumberland, is to challenge a 26-week jail term given to him by magistrates for offences relating to badgers, foxes, dogs, cats and cocks. Lumsden, of Park Road, has …
The Badger Trust is appalled that a farm in Cornwall, an area which has suffered from bovine tuberculosis for decades, not only moved cattle while under TB restrictions but also entered a major pedigree cattle show in Warwickshire. Fifty-eight passports for dead cattle were found on the premises. Wills Bros Ltd, of Pawton Dairy, Wadebridge, …
£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 …
A Lancashire farmer says he is being targeted by animal rights protesters after calling for a ban on shooting flocks of scavenging starlings to be lifted. The 70-year-old farmer, who does not want to be identified, says he and other local farmers have been contacted after they spoke out about the problems caused by large …
The Scottish chairman of the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust has been questioned by wildlife crime officers following the discovery of a dead sea eagle on his estate. The rare bird, which was found on land belonging to grouse moor owner Alasdair Laing, was discovered by an off-duty member of RSPB Scotland while walking in …
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This Saturday 19th February In London at Game and Wildlife Conservation Trusts office which is located at 26 Mortimer St, London. Please meet outside the office at 12 noon on Saturday 19th February. The contact on the day for this demo is Paul 07999 812994. The second demonstration is in Leicestershire again on Saturday 19th …
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The UK government's decision on whether to allow badger culling to curb cattle TB in England is to be delayed. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) had planned to announce its completed policy around the end of this month. But BBC News understands it could come as late as May - raising …