What you see this photograph is the normal behaviour of some Cumbrian farmer or gamekeeper and it shows 40 moles that have been killed by this person strung up on a wire fence for all to see. To many people it is highly objectionable indeed …
Background NEWS AND VIEWS: John Gaunt, 45, is a gamekeeper and he owns five dogs. They are kept in kennels. The coronavirus pandemic has not only created a surge in the purchase of dogs but also encouraged the illegal importation of dogs from Eastern Europe …
The UK government, in advance of an application for judicial review brought by Wild Justice, a pressure group, have decided to amend the law through a statutory instrument which will add pheasants and red-legged partridges to Schedule 9 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. …
The RSPB is taking a more critical stance with respect to pheasant shooting because it has a negative impact on conservation in Britain. The RSPB’s Royal Charter (granted in 1904) describes game bird shooting as legitimate and until today the organisation has resisted calls to …
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 …
