Fieldsports Britain – Crunch Week for Pigeonshooting
The UK government may or may not restrict pigeonshooting and other pest control this week. It all depends what we, the shooters, tell them. There
The UK government may or may not restrict pigeonshooting and other pest control this week. It all depends what we, the shooters, tell them. There
Shooters, farmers and other country people are planning a London March on Saturday 29 June 2019. It starts at 11am at Speakers’ Corner, Hyde Park,
The first of the new general licences is not fit for purpose, the second ‘appalling’. That’s what shooting organisations are telling Natural England. The National
Two shooters – the same problem. How do they shoot pest birds legally? Shooter A is a pest controller on a large arable farm in
As the general licences chaos rumbles on, Packham has been on British television at his manipulating worst. Speaking to Piers Morgan on Good Morning Britain,
Crow’s out after jackdaws just before the government withdraws the general licences. He has a good day – but he explains what the havoc caused
Here is this week’s news stump: ▶ Sea eagles catch lambs ▶ Packham manipulates the media ▶ Piers Morgan’s anti-hunting crusade ▶ Game meat
Celebrity anti-hunting campaigner Piers Morgan is floored on his own chat show, by a hunter who calmly explains to him how the maths of elephant
There’s a farm with a hoodie problem – the grey crows are nicking the cattle feed, so Jason Doyle is out to stop them, and
There are unconfirmed reports that England’s nuclear power stations have cancelled pest control while Natural England solves the general licences debacle. Under pressure from animal
A petition on the petitions website Change.org, asking the BBC to sack its star presenter Chris Packham, is on course to hit 100,000 signatures in
Heads will roll. MPs furious about the general licences debacle want sackings. Most likely to lose their jobs are Marian Spain, acting chief executive Natural
Scottish deerstalker Niall Rowantree is in New Zealand to deal with a local pest problem. Wallabies and possums, imported from Australia and released, are wreaking
General licences shambles Fcha.nl/generallicences Should gamekeepers be compulsory? ALF kills more pheasants The Times takes on a 27-year-old YouTuber Yorkshire beavers Josh James Kiwi Bushman
The Times of London might once have been called the Thunderer and brought down governments – but now it is engaged in a war of
Magical, mysterious, white deer evoke a reaction wherever they are seen. The classic ‘white hart’ of British myth is an albino red stag or fallow
After cutting the wire on a game farm in Wiltshire and driving 5,000 pheasants to roost unprotected on the ground, where they are easy
Bradford Council’s mismanagement of Ilkley Moor has killed more grouse in a single day than a season of grouse-shooting. That’s the accusation levelled at the
An American politician has introduced a bill to Congress that will see the end of most trophy imports. A democrat congressman from Arizona, Raúl Grijalva,
Endangered curlews are safest on grousemoors. That’s the claim of one of the world’s top habitat researchers, ahead of World Curlew Day. An international scientist
Tim Pilbeam is off to sample farm pest control jobs in Argentina – stalking axis deer and lamping hares. When you run a farm in
Scottish gamekeepers are promoting their ‘Heath on Fire OK!’ campaign. Backed by sporting estates and gamekeepers across the country, the initiative raises awareness of why
A YouTube star who gave up veganism after claiming the diet made him sick says he would now hunt animals Tim Shieff, 31, from London
Bad news for Chris Packham – mountain hares thrive on grousemoors, says new research. Mountain hares are regularly shot on Scottish moorland managed for grouse-shooting.
The moose and its close relation, the European elk, range across the tundra and subarctic of the northern hemisphere, with several subspecies. Occasionally, a hunter
Three convicted rhino poachers have been sentenced to 25 years imprisonment each. The judge in the Makhanda (Grahamstown) High Court in South Africa handed down
▶ Death threats for hunting guide ▶ Poacher killed by elephant ▶ Vegans are ‘shameful and un-Australian’ ▶ Hunters kill 17ft python in Florida ▶
David Wright talks about his time up in the highlands with Niall Rowantree and the ways the Scottish government are trying to reduce the amount
Obstruction of hunting is now an offence in France. A new measure passed on 11 April 2019 by the French Senate says that hindering or
A Freedom of Information request from the Countryside Alliance has discovered the recent petition to ban pheasant shooting on Welsh public land was manipulated by
Imogen is a pescatarian not a true veggie – but she cares about what she eats, and she has decided that wild game is fat-free,
Ilic Igor from Serval Channel accidentally shot an Iraqi through both legs in Croatia. He was out shooting wild boar and jackals at night with
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A hunter is allowed to use a hovercraft while hunting moose in Alaska. The US Supreme Court overturned a legal victory by the National Parks
What’s the deer’s biggest enemy in the Highlands of Scotland? Man? Wolves? No – it’s the steam engine. In the first in his new series,
The RSPB is upping its campaign against grousemoors, moorland gamekeepers and grouseshooters. The conservation work that gamekeepers undertake across the UK is the only barrier
Londoners are to be introduced to the joys of ratting via an exhibition. Tiny the Wonder, a champion rat-catching dog in the 19th century, is
A pond in Nottinghamshire has been drained because of the threat posed by goldfish. The goldfish bred and multiplied over the years, after being dumped
Anti grouse-shooters have been whipping up anger in North Yorkshire over a dead buzzard. They shared this X-ray showing metal particles in the buzzard, and
Natural England has issued a licence to allow the release of 60 white-tailed eagles on the Isle of Wight. It claims it ‘paid attention’ to
▶ Fieldsports News Fcha.nl/news Swedish lamper shoots man StopTheCull attacks game farms Fcha.nl/stopthecull David Attenborough joins salmon campaign Fcha.nl/salmon Beavers make it to Holyrood Tick-borne
Every year, a wildlife sanctuary in Co Kilkenny has a pigeon problem. Who do they call? Jenkinstown Gun Club. The lads from the club come
With spring underway and songbirds starting the long struggle to raise their broods, it’s a good time of year to go out and shoot grey
Sir David Attenborough has joined the campaign to save salmon. The noted naturalist and BBC TV presenter is backing a campaign by Salmon & Trout
Two buzzards got into a tangle – and out of it when they saw a dog, A friend of Fieldsports Channel viewer Nick Tait found
Yorkshire Water is reviewing the future of grouse shooting moors it owns in Calderdale. Following news that the Government now believes the RSPB line that
The League Against Cruel Sports has stopped shooting at a Bettws Hall shoot. The Welsh shoot operator leases the 750-acre estate at Gregynog Hall in
Who is the best air rifle and air pistol shot in the world? The International Shooting Sports Federation found out at the 10-metre championships –
Animal rights activists around the UK are being told: attack game farms. The violent wing of the anti-badger cull movement is run from a Facebook
Animal rights activists drive pheasants out of game farm Grousemoors to blame for killing of hen harriers Packham has a pop at pest controllers Shoot