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21st September 2023 A POWYS man charged with killing a protected bird of prey on his farm has denied the offence and will face a trial later this year. Thomas Edward Jones, 38, is accused of shooting dead a northern goshawk at his northern Powys pheasant farm on July 22 last year. Jones, of Pentre …
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6th September 2023 POWYS man has been charged with killing a protected bird of prey on his farm. Thomas Edward Jones, 38, is accused of shooting dead a northern goshawk at his northern Powys pheasant farm on July 22 last year. Jones, of Pentre Farm, between Meifod and Llanfihangel-yng-Ngwynfa, appeared at Welshpool Magistrates’ Court on …
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25th August 2023 Message from Raptor Persecution UK Twin brothers Alexander and Robert McKellar have today been sentenced at the High Court in Glasgow for their roles in knocking down cyclist Tony Parsons and burying his body in a stink pit on the notorious Auch Estate near the Bridge of Orchy, where their father had …
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19th August 2023 Three hen harriers have disappeared from private grouse moors, a conservation charity has said. Their satellite location tags show they vanished from moors in the Yorkshire Dales, Northumberland and Cumbria. The birds, which can eat grouse and their chicks, went missing between 9 and 15 August, close to the start of the …
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May 2021 From the Hunt Saboteurs Association Shooting Officer Drive through some of the countryside in Wales, Scotland and England you could be forgiven for thinking, especially when the heather is in bloom, how beautiful and diverse it is. In reality, the Grouse Moors are not dissimilar to palm oil plantations: a monoculture. The “crop” …
Royal estate linked to many deaths and disappearances of protected birds. 2nd July 2023 King Charles’s private country estate at Sandringham in Norfolk has been linked to the deaths and disappearances of a string of legally protected birds over the past two decades, a Guardian investigation has found. The cases include the alleged poisoning, shooting …
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From Protect The Wild 30th June 2023 On the 29th of June, Francis Addison (72) a part-time gamekeeper of South Park, Weeting, pleaded guilty at Norwich Magistrates’ court to NINETEEN charges in connection with a multi-agency raptor persecution investigation led by Suffolk Police, including the possession of five shot Goshawks. As Protect the Wild reported back …
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5th April 2023 A 67-year-old man has been convicted of killing raptors and other wild birds in Dumfries and Galloway. Barry Nicolle appeared at Dumfries Sheriff Court where he admitted the charges to killing the birds, which included five red kites. Police had discovered that the birds had not died naturally and had in fact …
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31st March 2023 Rory Parker was video-recorded as he fired twice at the protected bird of prey before it plummeted to the ground. Rory Parker was caught on camera as he fired two shots into the air before the protected bird of prey plummeted to the ground. The wildlife charity RSPB Scotland video-recorded the incident …
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16th February 2023 BREAKING NEWS….. Further to this morning’s blog (here), criminal gamekeeper Paul Allen, 54, of Baileys Hill, in Brockington, near Wimborne, has been given a suspended custodial sentence and a small fine after he pleaded guilty to multiple wildlife, poisons and firearms offences whilst working on the Shaftesbury Estate in Dorset in March …
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