Still sabbing the bastards
One of the most high profile members of Britain's aviculture community has been given a 16-week suspended prison sentence, a curfew between 9pm and 6am and ordered to pay £750 in costs after he admitted illegally keeping one of the UK’s rarest wild birds at his Yorkshire home. Sean Fitzpatrick – a former chairman and …
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CALLS to scrap plans to bring wildfowl shooting back to the Teifi estuary are being made by many organisations and individuals. A consultation meeting with the British Association of Shooting and Conservation, which wants the right to shoot ducks and geese between Patch and Old Castle Farm, ended with an overwhelming vote to abandon the …
More than 50 peregrine falcons have been poisoned, trapped, shot or had their chicks stolen this year, according to reports, in one of the worst years on record for persecution of the protected bird. More than 50 peregrine falcons have been found poisoned, trapped or shot this year - RSPB The Royal Society for the …
Three injured hunting dogs seized in raid of six properties, including gamekeepers' homes, on an estate near Edinburgh A sporting estate near Edinburgh has been raided by police after a poisoned red kite and several alleged baits were found earlier this month. Estate vehicles and six properties, including gamekeepers' homes, were searched on Raeshaw estate, …
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