Still sabbing the bastards
The League Against Cruel Sports has released shocking new evidence exposing the horrific suffering inflicted by snares and other traps to animals on shooting estates in Scotland. A graphic film and report, both titled ‘Blood Still on the Wire’ are being released to coincide with the start of the grouse shooting season. The 'Glorious Twelfth' …
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The League Against Cruel Sports has released graphic footage showing the extent of suffering inflicted on game birds used on commercial shoots. The short film, ‘A Good Shot?’ is being released today to coincide with the start of the grouse shooting season. The Glorious Twelfth traditionally celebrates the first day of shooting but the League …
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By Kit Davidson, Shooting Consultant to Animal Aid Glori’ous a. possessing glory, illustrious, conferring glory, honourable, splendid, magnificent, intensely delightful, ecstatically happy with drink. There is nothing glorious about the Twelfth of August. The only similarity grouse shooting shares with the dictionary definition of this abused adjective is the connection with drink. The hip flasks …
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A man from Lockerbie has been appeared in court on charges of interfering with a badger sett. William Scobie, 75, of Whitehills Avenue, is alleged to have put the banned pesticide Cymag in the entrance to the sett at nearby Jardine Hall. He is also accused of obstructing access to the sett and storing the …
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Dear Friends, I am now able to confirm that the Appeal will be held at Cardiff Civil Justice Centre, 2 Park Street, Cardiff, South Wales, CF10 1ET. We shall be in Court 15 which holds approximately 60 people. The Court is approximately two minutes from Cardiff Central Station. We are advised that parking facilities in …
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A FARMER and former magistrate has been fined for trapping and shooting a badger which dug up his garden. The RSPCA yesterday warned people against killing the animals after dairy farmer and former High Sheriff of Dyfed Richard Harold James, 77, caught the badger in a snare near his Pembrokeshire home and blasted it to …
FRIDAY 18TH JUNE 2010 MEET: 12 NOON AT THE CORN EXCHANGE, LEEDS Thomson Ecology is the company responsible for surveying for badgers and sett locations prior to the Welsh Assembly badger killing due to start any day now, i.e. these people are finding out where the badgers are and where best to trap them, then …
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A cull on badgers in Pembrokeshire will not begin before the results of an appeal, the Welsh rural affairs minister has announced. The decision was made after the Badger Trust was told it could appeal against the outcome of a judicial review that backed the assembly government's plans. Elin Jones had initially said work on …
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Thousands of grey squirrels could be culled in parts of Cornwall to help red squirrels return to the county. Landowners on the Lizard and in west Penwith want to generate support for the scheme, which has the backing of Prince Charles, the Duke of Cornwall. Grey squirrels carry a virus that kills red squirrels, which …
Three men from East Sussex have been charged in relation to poaching offences. The men are accused of using crossbows to kill deer and wild birds in the Rother and Wealden area. They will appear before Hastings Magistrates Court on 17 June charged with offences under the Wildlife and Countryside Act. Sussex Police said the …
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