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: Palantir wins UK gun licensing contract – TheNational.scot Dog charity shoot’s final year – BardenClayShoot.co.uk Water Priory charity shoot raises £400,000
Here are the links: Northern Ireland drops gun certificate fee hike – BBC Politicians back NI hunting ban – Facebook Dorset gunshop owner retires –
Here are the links: Northern Ireland hunting ban moves a step closer – FieldsportsChannel.tv NZ helicopter hunting tragedy – GiveaLittle.co.nz and ODT.co.nz BASC urges Scotland’s first
Northern Ireland hunting ban: what does it mean? by Charlie Jacoby In a move to disappoint Northern Ireland’s rural community, MLAs at Stormont voted through
Government electric vehicle strategy fails in the UK countryside by Charlie Jacoby The government’s push to make people buy electric vehicles has not worked on
Here are the links: Licence fees are ‘hidden tax on shooting’ – BASC Trophy hunting film – Linktree/sarahsrealjob and YouTube Louisiana gator season extended –
Here are the links: Parliament call for wildfire evidence – Parliament.uk West Mercia backs down on semi-autos – YouTube Packham trail-hunting march flops – Facebook
Here are the links: Eagle lamb attack video – Facebook Irish hunt supporters rally against Blair bill – Countryside Alliance Police firearms licensing still failing
Here are the links: Proposed trail hunting ban – Countryside Alliance Northern Ireland faces bid to ban foxhunting – BBC Northern Ireland gun licensing fee
The CIC general assembly in Vienna, 2026, is a talking shop for the world’s hunters. Plus it included a service in St Stephen’s Cathedral, by
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IplcitP8yoo This week it’s bring-your-kids-to-work day, so David’s son Hector is on the Fieldsports Channel news stump. Here are the links: BBC parrots anti-shooting propaganda
West Mercia Police has made up its own rules restricting Section 1 shotguns – that is shotguns with a magazine capacity greater than two cartridges,