Still sabbing the bastards
The environment secretary has ruled that the cull of the endangered sea birds on the Ribble Estuary can go ahead Leo Hickman guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 25 June 2013 Owen Paterson, the environment secretary, has given the green light to a controversial cull of endangered sea birds on the Ribble Estuary in Lancashire, the Guardian has learned. …
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A gamekeeper who poisoned a bird of prey and owned illegal pesticides has been fined £4,450. • Gamekeeper who poisoned common buzzard fined £4,450 • Peter Bell, 62, also found guilty of owning illegal pesticides The common buzzard died after eating the carcass of a pheasant that Peter Bell laced with highly toxic pesticide carbofuran. …
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Sarah Morrison delves inside the secret world of the people trying to stop the mass shootings Sarah Morrison Friday, 14 June 2013 Lynn, a 46-year-old midwife, finds a novel way to fill her days off. The one-time hunter is now a hunt saboteur who finds herself at the centre of the Government’s controversial badger cull. …
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Another day, another location, another criminal gamekeeper, another wildlife crime conviction, another shit sentence. This time it’s gamekeeper Shaun Leslie Allanson (37), convicted of crow cage trap misuse on the Blansby Park Estate, nr Pickering, North Yorkshire. Today at Scarborough Magistrates Court, this ‘professional’ pleaded guilty to intentionally taking a buzzard using a live pigeon …
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A GAMEKEEPER from Pickering has been charged by police for the illegal use of cage traps to capture a buzzard. The man, who has not yet been named, was arrested by North Yorkshire Police in October after a live buzzard had been found trapped inside a cage trap feeding on a pigeon. A second smaller …
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A GAMEKEEPER from North Yorkshire has been arrested over the alleged illegal use of cage traps. North Yorkshire Police said a live buzzard was found caught in the trap, which was inside a pheasant pen, in the Pickering area. It was released unharmed, with a second trap containing a live pigeon being found nearby. A …
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Millionaire landowner – and Wildlife minister – accused of putting wealthy friends before his parliamentary brief The Wildlife minister, Richard Benyon, has been accused of being "the gamekeeper's friend" by refusing to outlaw a poison used by some to kill protected birds of prey on shooting estates. Mr Benyon, a millionaire landowner who is strongly …
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Wildlife campaigners have been warned that they face prosecution if they attempt to disrupt marksmen conducting the country’s first badger cull. By James Kirkup and Louise Gray 18 Sep 2012 Natural England issued the first licence for a pilot cull yesterday, the start of a controversial attempt to tackle tuberculosis in cattle by shooting thousands …
Hunt saboteurs from the North of England have stopped a grouse shoot that was taking place on Saddleworth Moor, between Holmfirth and Oldham. Today is the first Saturday of the grouse shooting season, one of the most prestigious and expensive days in the shooting calendar, where each customer will pay hundreds of pounds to blast …
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