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 … Continue reading →
Poaching has increased in Africa because of the coronavirus pandemic and the consequential collapse of tourism.
Continue reading →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 … Continue reading →
“Dog tolling” refers to a dog dancing about in a strange fashion to fascinate ducks, to draw them nearer to allow a human duck-hunter to shoot the animal. The dogs who do this are called “tollers”. This form of canine … Continue reading →
The Times newspaper tells me that fishing is catching on with the stars, the celebrities and the Z listers. It appears that the coronavirus pandemic has been a catalyst to the increasing numbers of anglers in the UK. The furlough … Continue reading →
The Countryside Alliance decided to fight back because currently there is a lot of negative discussion about shooting birds for pleasure which essentially is what grouse shooting is. Perhaps the coronavirus pandemic has made people more sensitive towards our animal … Continue reading →
NEWS-VIEWS FRANCE: I’ve just learned about this. From my perspective it is a disgusting practice but it is apparently commonplace in Provence, France. I’m told that the practice of limestick trapping was developed in ancient Greece. Hunters cover twigs and … Continue reading →
NEWS/VIEWS: Alaska, USA: it seems astonishing to me that America’s federal government has introduced new rules which allow the killing of hibernating bears and their cubs in their dens and shooting caribou from speedboats in national parks in Alaska this … Continue reading →
Graham Boynton has written a piece in The Times newspaper on Friday 18 in which he said that it would be a mistake to ban the importation of wildlife trophies from Africa to the UK. The Queen’s Speech included the … Continue reading →
For those of us who detest foxhunting, this is great news. A spokesman for the Atherstone Hunt said that hunting activities would cease with immediate effect. The reason appears to be the attritional effect of a long-running battle with hunt … Continue reading →
The collection of hunting trophies belonging to Marcial Gómez Sequeira, a 79-year-old Spanish businessman and trophy hunter who has shot 1,250 animals during his life including lions, tigers and polar bears, is going to be used to create a museum … Continue reading →
In the UK, stag hunts on horseback are bending the law to allow them to continue to hunt deer and kill them. It is the same sort of situation that occurs when the Japanese kill whales for ostensibly scientific reasons. … Continue reading →
I can’t watch this. I just can’t because it is too sickening, both her hunting and her idiotic attempts to justify it. But here is her attempt nonetheless. I gather from the tweet that she failed because she ends up … Continue reading →
