The Times reports on another hunting accident in France in which a person has been shot dead. A motorist was critically injured when a large calibre rifle bullet passed through his neck as he was driving on the dual carriageway road from Rennes to Nantes. …
FRANCE-NEWS AND COMMENT: In a bid to attract the countryside vote for his forthcoming presidential election campaign, President Macron has overturned a ban on the hunting of songbirds such as thrushes, blackbirds and lapwings using traditional methods such as nets, cages and nooses. President Macron …
Game meat sold by Sainsbury’s and Waitrose contains high levels of lead which would be illegal in chicken, pork and beef. However, there is no legal limit for lead in wild animals which have been shot. Despite this anomaly, the UK Food Standards Agency warns …
The leader of the National Rifle Association (NRA), Wayne LaPierre, was filmed ineptly and chaotically trying to shoot a bush elephant to death in Botswana. The shooting was an attempt to boost the NRA’s standing among hunters according to The New Yorker, which published the …
Although the Duke of Edinburgh’s attitude towards sport hunting may have softened over his long life it is said that ‘the duke had no time for criticism of country sports’ (The Times today). He was the president of the World Wildlife Fund since 1961. He …
NEWS AND COMMENT: I don’t think anybody has said it but when I read the story about a French hunter who shot a British guy living in France because the hunter thought that he was shooting a boar, I wonder whether he did it deliberately …
I’m not going to add much in the way of words because the picture is self-explanatory: he’s aprick of the first order and he is the offspring of the current President Donald Trump who is arguably a bigger prick. Chips off the old block, that …
NEWS AND COMMENT: the infamous Safari Club International (SCI) has paid thousands of pounds to a specialist contractor, the Inclusive Conservation Group, to spread disinformation and fake news through dozens of fake social media profiles to promote SCI’s campaign to undermine the UK’s Department for …
The High Peak Hunt allegedly acted recklessly as it charged onto a farmer’s field near Broxtowe, Nottinghamshire with a pack of hounds. In the field was a calf who was terrified. It ran in terror from the pack of hounds, jumping three drystone walls in …
