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For our second example of a case of illegal raptor persecution that did not make it to the courts I’ll take you back to the ‘Sandringham harriers case’. This is an extract from Fighting for Birds (pp196-98): Mark writes in Fighting for Birds: I was on a train to London on 24 October 2007 when…

I bet something to do with nature is one of them – it is for many people (including me).

Ethical Consumer magazine has published a report on the links between optics companies (binoculars, telescopes, cameras) and  hunting.  It’s an eye-opener. Now I had occasionally thought about the fact that the people who make birdwatchers’ binoculars might well be selling the same or similar to hunters – and to be honest it has never worried…

Mountain Hares rush to leave their worldly possessions to the GWCT – not! Adam Smith from the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust in Scotland said that it was possible the dead hares in the photo below were “part of a sustainable harvest”.  That’ll be a great relief to these Mountain Hares and they will be…

Original blog on this subject from August 2015. If this image of a Mountain Hare leveret caught in a gamekeeper’s trap upsets you, then please remember that this type of thing is going on in our National Parks wherever driven grouse shooting bumps up against Mountain Hares, and make your views known through this website…