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Nails in hunting’s coffin: 2024’s guilty convictions
2024 saw numerous hunters in the dock, either for hunting-related offences, or
Listing the businesses that enable the Wynnstay Hunt
Based near Wrexham, the Wynnstay Hunt is one of the UK’s most
Mark Tiffin, man behind ‘Rose’ crowdfunder, is notorious badger baiter and terrierman
A recent GoFundMe crowdfunder to rescue a little dog called Rose captured
Hypocrite: Prince William issues ‘urgent call’ to ‘make peace with nature’
The Royals are one of the UK’s most wealthy and well-known shooting
Bloodbusiness now with MAPPING
Back in July, Protect the Wild launched a new website, bloodbusiness.info “a
‘New’ badger cull policy: still not good for badgers
On 30 August, Defra announced “Government to end badger cull with new
Nothing glorious about the ‘Inglorious 12th’
The 12th of August (the ‘Inglorious 12th’) marks the start of a key ‘season’ for the shooting industry. Over the next 121 days that industry will aim to sell hundreds of thousands of Red Grouse to shooters to kill.
We’ve launched bloodbusiness.info
On Saturday 27 July we launched a new website bloodbusiness.info – but
See you at Action for Wildlife Day!
Protect the Wild is heading to the Peak District! On August 10th
Unreal: Fox-killing Rees-Moggs to star in reality TV show
Discovery+ has announced that it has made a five-part series about stuffy
Adorable videos of badgers YOU helped save
Last year, Protect the Wild readers helped an East Sussex community to
The Secret Monitor: Linhope Estate, Northumberland
Damaging stories from inside hunting and shooting have been circulating for years.
GRAPHIC IMAGES: Stink Pits – as disgusting as they sound
Anyone who comes across one of the shooting industry’s ‘hidden secrets’ will
Rishi Sunak: it’s time to go!
Ahead of a worsening economic outlook and with his personal popularity at
SIGN THE PETITION: Drop The Newt from the Chelsea Flower Show
The world famous Chelsea Flower Show, organised by the Royal Horticultural Society
Yorkshire Dales: new report proves it’s a raptor persecution hot spot
The Yorkshire Dales Bird of Prey ‘Partnership’ (YDBPP) recently published a ‘Bird
The Gentleman’s Vinnie Jones: it’s all an act for this keen shooter
Netflix’s The Gentlemen is currently ranking in the streaming service’s Top 10 most-watched TV shows. Footballer-turned-actor Vinnie Jones has a starring role as an animal-loving gamekeeper of a wealthy 15,000 acre estate. But in real life, Jones is infamous for killing wildlife. Crows, pigeons, rabbits, foxes, boar: you name them, Jones has shot them all. And he’s bragged about it too.
VOTE May 2: Elections for Police and Crime Commissioners
Elections for England and Wales’ Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) take place
Is the Chepstow Show inviting hunts again?
It looked for a while that organisers of the Chepstow Show –
Illegal to cut a hedge in Spring? Yes – and no…
Despite what the weather outside might suggest (it’s cool and wet across
The hypocrisy of the XL Bully ban
Since 31 December 2023, it has been illegal in the UK to
Ten reasons why 2023 was a good year for wildlife
For those of us who love wildlife, it is easy to fall
Inside Protect the Wild: why did we create Protectors of the Wild?
Many organisations – from wildlife charities to the police – ask us
Protecting the Wild Equipment Fund #13: Radios for Roaming Sabs
The Protecting the Wild Equipment Fund was set up in Summer 2023
The Secret Monitor: Without fear or favour?
Damaging stories from inside hunting, shooting, and the badger cull have been
Unelected Defra ministers won’t protect wildlife
Is our government fit to protect wildlife? We take a look at
Protecting the Wild Equipment Fund: Ren’s Wildlife Hospital
As Protect the Wild’s CEO Rob Pownall explained in a recent post
Why Protect the Wild doesn’t support licencing of the shooting industry.
Staggering levels of raptor persecution (the illegal persecution of birds of prey)
The Secret Monitor: Partners in crime – who’s enabling the cruelty of stag hunting?
Damaging stories from inside hunting, shooting, and the badger cull have been
The Secret Monitor: Curre and Llangibby Hunt and their sweary supporters
Damaging stories from inside hunting, shooting, and the badger cull have been
DEER HUNTING: Has the British Deer Society landed a death blow?
Quietly, and without any fanfare, the British Deer Society (BDS), a charity
The Secret Monitor: Stag hunting not cruel enough? There’s always hind hunting…
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Equipment Fund #10: Monitoring badger setts in Derbyshire
One of the UK’s most charismatic mammals, badgers are also one of
This is the solution to end stag hunting forever
Stag hunting is possibly the UK’s most gruesome blood sport. When the
This is the solution to end fox hunting for good
Week in, week out, Protect the Wild reports on foxes being murdered,
Protecting the Wild Equipment Fund #8: Salisbury Plain Monitors
The Protecting the Wild Equipment Fund was set up in Summer 2023
Snares: Scottish government must not be hoodwinked by gamekeepers
As the Scottish government considers a ban on the use of snares,
Protecting the Wild Equipment Fund #7: Somerset Badger Monitors
One of the UK’s most charismatic mammals, badgers are also one of
The vile Pheasant shooting ‘season’ has started
With barely a press release or salivating media article, the pheasant shooting
Protecting the Wild Eqipment Fund #6: Derbyshire Against The Cull
We set up the Protecting the Wild Equipment Fund earlier in the
