Still sabbing the bastards
A man who was convicted of badger baiting has won an appeal against a court's verdict. Jamie Rush was one of four men found guilty in October of attempting to kill or take badgers in Pembrokeshire. He was jailed for 22 weeks after a trial at Cardiff Crown Court, following an undercover investigation by BBC …
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Chris Packham has branded Cambridge University’s move to cover a row of trees with nets to stop birds from nesting as “absolutely outrageous”, with activists from Extinction Rebellion responding by tearing some of the netting down. The conservationist’s social media post was prompted by photographs of the trees, with their branches completely encased in netting, on …
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Message from Wildlife Witness Fantastic work by a single sab / monitor stopping the notorious BSV fox killers from claiming another victim today. It takes a special sort of individual to make a stand like this and to show what true courage is. Excuse the bad language and enjoy the spectacle of hunt scum getting …
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25th February 2020 Yovanis Cruz, who keeps racing pigeons, admitted killing the protected hawk by firing ball bearings at it with a catapult after it attacked one of his birds The crime was caught on CCTV by a neighbour’s camera Cruz, who ‘acted without mercy’, was fined £801 at Portsmouth Magistrates’ Court today (25 February) …
19th February 2020 A 60-year-old pigeon fancier has been fined for shooting and killing a sparrowhawk. Duncan Cowan, from Cowie in Stirlingshire was fined £450 after pleading guilty to a charge under section 1(1)(a) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 at Stirling Sheriff Court. The court heard that on the afternoon of 18 April …
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BEWARE HORRIBLE VIDEO Footage by Norfolk and Suffolk Against Live Quarry Hunting. Please turn on your sound as it adds a lot to the video. On Tuesday 18th February 2020, 15 years to the day after the Hunting Act came into force, monitors filmed Waveney Harriers hounds chasing a deer into a fence and then repeatedly …
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21st February 2020 A DEAD badger has been strung up at the New Forest home of TV presenter and wildlife campaigner Chris Packham. Mr Packham (58) tweeted a picture of the gruesome late-night discovery on his gate at about 1am this morning (Friday). He said: “Always nice to get home after a long day at …
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Post from Norfolk/Suffolk Hunt Sabs WARNING : CONTAINS GRAPHIC CONTENT. Following our report yesterday (18th February 2020) of a deer being killed by the Waveney Harriers at Frostenden, please see photographs and read the account of what happened written by the courageous member of Norfolk and Suffolk Against Live Quarry Hunting who witnessed this horrific …
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10th February 2020 The quartet were caught on Christmas Eve. Police received a report of a suspicious vehicle and dogs on farm land in Stapleford at 12.15pm on December 24th 2019. Officers attended and located four men, a vehicle was also seized along with two dogs. The four appeared before Salisbury Magistrates on Friday (7th …
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Businesses near Chesterfield say they are counting the cost after dogs from a Derbyshire hunt ‘ran amok’ while ‘chasing a fox’ across their land. By Tim Paget Monday, 10th February 2020 Hounds from the Barlow Hunt allegedly ‘rampaged’ across a former golf driving range and a reclamation business at Barrow Hill on Tuesday, February 4 …
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