10th August 2024 Great song by a great band. AMASS / GAMEKEEPERS GALLOWS 2023 Video by Iain Influx Recorded, mixed & mastered by Neil Combstock at Rocking Horse Studios, Durham on 01 July 2023. AMASS would like to thank Rich & Neil Combstock, Iain Influx, North East Hunt Monitors, Hunt Saboteurs Association, Lancashire Hunt Saboteurs, …
Retired Edradynate Estate gamekeeper David Campbell appears in court accused of shotgun murder of Brian Low
Thanks to Raptor Persecution UK for the article 28th May 2024 Retired Edradynate Estate head gamekeeper David Campbell, 75, appeared at Dundee Sheriff Court yesterday accused of the shotgun murder of Brian Low, 65, a retired groundsman also from Edradynate Estate. Edradynate Estate driveway. Photo by Ruth Tingay Campbell is accused of murdering Brian Low by shooting …
A Hunt Sab : My Saturday
16th February 2024 Inspired by Gregg Wallace’s recent article, a Hunt Sab talks us through their typical Saturday. 7.00am I wake up, get a coffee and breakfast and check messages relating to the day’s sabbing plans. I charged my equipment the night before: camcorder, radio, phone, body camera, so I pack it all away in a …
Outfoxed: have the hunt saboteurs wiped out hunting?
3rd September 2024 Over 60 years ago the first punches were thrown in what became a bitter guerilla campaign in the British countryside. Hunting was supposedly banned in 2004 but carried on regardless — now the hunt saboteurs are finally winning, writes JOHN LILBURNE. Hunt saboteurs, or ‘sabs,’ have now done battle in the countryside …
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Hunt Saboteurs Association Tip off Hotline
The HSA now have a tip-off hotline that you can contact in strict confidence! If you have some information about a hunt or have seen a hunt please get in touch, someone will respond to you as soon as possible 07443Â 148426.
Two-thirds of confirmed illegal killings of birds of prey last year linked to shooting estates
From Channel 4 News 23rd November 2023 Around two-thirds of the confirmed illegal killings of birds of prey last year are linked to shooting estates. That's according to the RSPB's latest report on bird crime, which we can exclusively reveal. Buzzards, red kites, goshawks, hen harriers, peregrine falcons and white-tailed eagles have all fallen victim …
Moorland Association Director Ben Ramsden convicted for burning on deep peat on Middlesmoor Estate grouse moor, Nidderdale
Message from Raptor Persecution UK 20th October 2023 Grouse moor owner Ben Ramsden was found guilty at Skipton Magistrates Court today of three counts of burning on deep peat on a grouse moor on the Middlesmoor Estate in Nidderdale, Yorkshire on 8 April 2023. The prosecution related to reports of a fire lit on the …
Three men arrested for poaching grouse
1st September 2023 Three men have been convicted of poaching grouse. Police received a report on January 29 that three men were spotted in possession of a firearm and poaching grouse on moorland close by Lockwood Beck near Guisborough. Officers attended the area and arrested the three men on suspicion of poaching offences. A search …
Hen harriers disappear from grouse moors in northern England
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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BARE BUTTS: SHOOTS ABANDONED AS SABS STORM GLORIOUS TWELFTH!
13th August 2023 Hunt sabs from across the country have shut down a number of driven grouse shoots on the first day of the season – the so-called Glorious Twelfth. With specialist spotting units out across much of upland Britain from daybreak, it wasn’t long before a shoot was seen assembling at Heathfield Moor, Nidderdale …
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