Outrage at police bull slaughter – Fieldsports News, 15 October 2025
Here are the links: Police shoot escaped bull – Three.fm Scotland backs down on muirburn rules – Moorland Association on X Wales consults on greyhound
Animal welfare consultant Jim Barrington goes on a tour of hare poaching victims in the Eastern Counties of England. With poachers damaging crops and farm equipment, it is up to gamekeepers to defend the land. Tony Blair’s 2004 ban on coursing was meant to have stopped this. Jim meets gamekeepers Geoff Garrod and Ed Coles and hears first hand how Blair’s ban has failed.
Click here for Ed Coles’ petition to increase poaching sentences
Here are the links: Police shoot escaped bull – Three.fm Scotland backs down on muirburn rules – Moorland Association on X Wales consults on greyhound
Here are the links: Pine martens released on Exmoor – BBC and TwoMoorsPineMartens.org Hunting worth €180 billion a year to Europe – FACE and YouTube DEFRA shadow’s
Here are the links: Mandatory training threatens Scottish deerstalking – BASC London hunting conference filling up fast – Hunting Kind Dyfed-Powys Police try to confiscate
Here are the links: Black grouse breeding success – GWCT NGO challenges police crime commissioner – NGO Geese arrive in Scotland – YouTube New airgun
Here are the links: Scottish crofters want stalking rights – WeLoveStornoway.com and FT.com John Muir Trust’s ‘toxic culture’ – Herald Scotland Police crush poacher’s X-Trail –
In a record year for wildfires in Britain’s uplands – 1,000 of them – only Starmer’s government could enact legislation that will make the problem
Police swooped on well-known gamekeeper Scott Shuckford and took away his guns after a member of the public reported seeing a gun in his truck.
Here are the links: Government extends burning ban – Gov.uk Arrested for shooting catapults – Kent Police YouTube Scottish greyhound ban looms – Parliament.scot Spurs
Here are the links: RSPB’s rotting stoat – RSPB Phil Gray wins British Open Sporting – Facebook livestream and CPSA results Goose shooting prospects look good
Here are the links: Rimfire world championships – ImpactScoring.net Rupert Lowe MP gets his guns back – X.com Langdale wildfire enters its third week –
When Gloucestershire Police wrote to Jack Edmunds to explain why they were revoking his shotgun certificate, they said it was because he was a murder
Here are the links: Record year for wildfires – BBC and BBC Kennel Club sells gundog trialling estate – ChronicleLive.co.uk London wildlife management conference – Bit.ly/ukwildlifeconference
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