NEWS AND VIEWS – GREAT YARMOUTH, UK: Mr and Mrs Gant, 77 and 74 respectively, kept a pack of eight whippets. Neighbours recorded the dogs barking more than 900 times in one hour. As they had already been convicted by Norwich magistrates of breaching a …
NEWS AND OPINION: The bird shooting community i.e. those people who like to shoot pheasants and grouse on the estates of toffs, includes people (gamekeepers normally) who shoot birds illegally. In short, there are criminals within the bird shooting community and nobody is doing anything …
REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO, AFRICA: a serial poacher and ivory trafficker has been convicted and jailed for 30 years in a major landmark case in the Republic of Congo. It is the first sentence of its kind because previously environmental crimes were tried in civil …
The Earl of Hopetoun is Andrew Hope. His family has owned the Leadhills estate of 19,500 acres for 300 years. It is farmland and moorland across South Lancashire. It has a reputation, it is reported in The Times, as an alleged wildlife crime hotspot. The …
NEWS AND OPINION: Rhino poaching has fallen by 63% in Namibia because fines dished out to poachers on their conviction have increased from 200,000 Namibian dollars to 25 million Namibian dollars which is the equivalent of £1.1 million. Also, jail terms have increased. The number …
NEWS AND VIEWS: It appears that somebody in a place called Nidderdale, near Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, UK is deliberately putting down a cocktail of pesticides which the police have nicknamed the “Nidderdale cocktail”. We are not told but it seems that the individual is …
A New Hampshire woman has been accused of pushing her 11-year-old dog, a golden retriever, into a lake and watching it drown. Her alleged crime was witnessed. Police were dispatched on June 8, 2018 to Wasserman park in the evening to work with the fire …
