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 inspectorate predicts licensing catastrophe – HMICFRS Call for more foxshooting – Scribehound Hunt ban campaigners at Labour conference – Facebook
Here are the links: Reform calls for Badgers Act reform – X.com/RobertJenrick Scotland wants your views on general licences – GeneralLicensingReview.commonplace.is Norfolk firearms licensing crisis
Here are the links: Ramblers have a pop at deerstalkers – STV Echo wins top field trial – ScottishFieldTrialsAssociation.co.uk YouTube channel donates thermal scope to
Here are the links: Invermark to appeal after crow shooting ban – NatureScot Natural England pheasant release humiliation – BASC Wildfires are the talk of
Here are the links: Grouse prospects – FieldsportsChannel Podcast 147 Grouse shoots boost economy – Scottish Land & Estates + YouTube Firefighting at Derbyshire shoot
Here are the links: Shadow DEFRA secretary endorses trailhunting – YouTube Deerstalking cash for 18-30s – BASC and YouTube Fieldsports Channel to buy Scribehound –
Devon & Cornwall Police not only seized airgunner Tim Newcombe’s rifles and pistols, they are threatening to destroy them, even though they are Tim’s property.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ9G9IfxWbU Here are the links: Judge raps Natural England over pheasant release – BASC Police investigate Burnham civil servant – Telegraph Rewilding blamed for massive
Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre programme 2026
Here are the links: Wildfires rage across British uplands – Facebook Ofcom to investigate Packham parakeet programme – Channel 4 Catapult maker gets legal letter
Scottish government ‘failing foxes’ New laws banning foxhunting AND trailhunting in Scotland are failing foxes. That’s the experience of huntsman and master Poppy Tutcher of
Horse mackerel, tuna and octopus: the new reality for Britain’s sea anglers Sea fishing on England’s south coast is changing rapidly. Adam Morris of Exe