Month: February 2014

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Hunt saboteur receives payout after police assault

Hunt Saboteurs Association Press Release 23rd February 2014 http://www.huntsabs.org.uk/index.php/news/press-releases/516-hunt-saboteur-receives-payout-after-police-assault On 25th February 2012 members of West Midlands Hunt Saboteurs and Northampton Hunt Saboteurs attended a meet of Otis Ferry's South Shropshire Foxhunt at the Mytton and Mermaid public house in Atcham near Shrewsbury. The attached film shows the totally unprofessional and biased approach the police …

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Windsor ‘wildlife massacre’: 7,000 animals killed in just ONE year on the royal estate – Mirror Online

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 …

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Hunt apology after hounds go on the run – Banbury Guardian

A huntmaster has apologised after hounds ran through a village garden and towards a nursery school in possible pursuit of a fox. Sam Butler, of the Warwickshire Hunt, offered the apology in response to strong criticism after the hounds picked up the scent of a fox in Farnborough on Monday. The hounds ran through one …

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If Prince William wants to protect wildlife, he’d better put down the gun

I've seen that hunting remains a royal obsession, and the prince's latest boar shoot is more than just a PR slip-up 'Requiring little or no skill, royal pheasant shoots are a pre-planned carnage of wildlife, bred specifically for slaughter.' Photograph: Rex Features Do palace courtiers have a good eye for PR? This week Prince William …

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Four arrested over suspected illegal hunt near Pickering, North Yorkshire

5:41pm Sunday 16th February 2014 FOUR people were arrested today (Sunday, February 16) and five dogs were seized, when police disturbed a suspected illegal hunt in North Yorkshire. Officers also seized a car involved in the incident, which happened at 11am at Salton, south-west of Pickering. The people were arrested on suspicion of hunting with …

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Government releases figures showing badger cull case was exaggerated by flawed bovine TB statistics

Tom Bawden Saturday, 15 February 2014 The Government’s highly controversial badger cull has suffered a further setback after it released figures which showed it had exaggerated the case for the cull. The Department for Food, Agriculture and Rural Affairs (Defra) has admitted that an IT glitch meant it had overstated the number of cattle herds …

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Channel 4 News report on the illegal persecution of raptors on Scottish grouse moors

Thanks to Raptor Persecution Scotland for the article below: For those who missed it, the Channel 4 News report on the illegal persecution of raptors on Scottish grouse moors can be watched here for a few days. First of all, we need to be celebrating that raptor persecution has been featured on a national mainstream …

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