Tell the Scottish Government: Outlaw the Guga Hunt
One week ago, NatureScot rejected the 2026 Guga hunt licence. Now comes the bigger fight: making sure it never returns. The timing could not be more important. Right now, the Scottish Government is setting its priorities for the year ahead, which will be announced when Parliament returns from summer recess in just a few weeks. […]
24 Hours Until Final Guga Hunt Decision – Just 12 people will decide fate of 2,000 Gannets.
This is it. Our final chance to stop the Guga hunt going ahead this year. And with just 24 hours until NatureScot’ decision, you’d think I’d be feeling more optimistic. After all, the latest scientific assessment shows the Guga hunt would decimate Sula Sgeir’s Gannet population, and both their licensing and Marine Ornithology teams have […]
Guga hunt licence set to be REFUSED
If you haven’t already seen the news on our social media, NatureScot has published the papers for its upcoming board meeting on 3 August, and its own licensing and marine ornithology experts have made a clear recommendation: The 2026 Guga hunt licence should be refused. I hesitate to celebrate too soon, but this almost certainly […]
End the Guga Hunt Campaign Heads to Lush Stores
What happens when you spend four days asking complete strangers whether baby Gannets should still be beaten to death in the name of tradition? You discover just how ready people are for change. After seeing the work we’ve been doing to end the Guga Hunt, Lush invited us into their stores to raise awareness of […]
We Protested Outside NatureScot as their Board Discussed the Guga Hunt
This morning, we were there. As NatureScot’s Board gathered to discuss the Guga hunt licence application, we were outside their headquarters – with placards, megaphones and Gannet suits, reminding them that they have the power to stop this hunt, and the responsibility to do so. Yesterday, we asked you to email NatureScot’s Board ahead of […]
I went to the place where the Guga hunt begins. I didn’t expect to see this.
On the northernmost tip of the Isle of Lewis lies Ness, a remote district comprising 16 small villages. At first glance, there is little to distinguish Ness from countless other Scottish coastal communities. Quiet villages of weather-beaten houses, narrow roads and rugged coastline overlooking the Atlantic. But there’s one thing that makes Ness unlike anywhere […]
Scotland’s Shooting Industry Wants Wildlife Killing to be UNESCO-Recognised
The shooting industry in Scotland just applied for UNESCO heritage status. Yes, UNESCO, that thing you associate with the wonders of the world, humanity’s greatest cultural and natural treasures. Not shooting, trapping and poisoning wildlife for fun. The British Association of Shooting and Conservation (BASC) Scotland has submitted both wildfowling (hunting of wild ducks, geese, […]
Labour MP Loses his Temper at Guga Hunt Protestors
We appear to have pissed off a Labour MP. Allow us to explain why we’re not sorry. Torcuil Crichton, Labour MP for Na h-Eileanan an Iar (the Western Isles in Scotland), accused us and other anti-Guga hunt campaigners of “attention-seeking” “virtue-signalling” behaviour and of having a “saviour-complex” for trying to stop the annual killing of […]
New polling shows huge surge in opposition to the Guga hunt.
The tides are well and truly shifting against the Guga hunt – the cruel annual killing of Gannet chicks off the North West coast of Scotland – and we have the stats to prove it. Our latest polling shows that 77% of Scottish people with a view want the Guga hunt to be banned. In […]
We paid a visit to the most vile shop in Scotland
Last week, we were travelling down from some campaigning work in Inverness, and we passed a shop called The House of Bruar. We decided to go in for a look, and what we found shocked us. The House of Bruar is a high-end department store in the Scottish highlands, and it looks innocent from the […]
We Just Tried to Hand NatureScot the Biggest Petition in Their History
We just travelled to NatureScot headquarters carrying two things: A giant Gannet suit. And a giant cheque representing what is now the largest petition NatureScot has ever received. Over 163,000 people have now signed the call for Scotland’s nature agency to stop the licensed slaughter of Gannet chicks on Sula Sgeir. HELP US REACH 200K […]
We Didn’t Win the Election – But We Changed the Conversation
Yesterday, we lost the election. But we won the moment. Because as millions of eyes across the country watched the results being announced, they saw a massive Gannet seabird on stage, unfurling a placard that read “END THE GUGA HUNT.” A few months ago, the idea sounded ridiculous. Run for the Scottish Parliament dressed as […]
SCANDAL: Guga hunt island is Scotland’s worst performing Gannet colony.
Sula Sgeir is Scotland’s worst-performing Gannet colony – yet the body responsible for protecting it is still allowing birds to be killed. Each year a group of men travel to the remote island of Sula Sgeir in northern Scotland to kill young Gannet seabirds – known as “Guga” – as part of a traditional hunt. […]
Abolish the Guga Hunt activists arrested after 60+ hour rooftop occupation
Three sleepless nights. Two arrests. One clear demand: End the Guga hunt. At 4am on Friday 20th March, while most of the country slept, two men climbed onto the roof of NatureScot headquarters in Inverness. Perched on the highest ridge above the building’s glass atrium, they locked themselves to a railing, unfurled a banner, and […]
Gordon Ramsay cooked young seabirds into a ‘delicacy’ and the footage is hard to stomach.
Footage has emerged showing celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay travelling to a remote Scottish island in search of a “rare” “delicacy”. But what he uncovered wasn’t cuisine – it was pure cruelty. In the four minute long clip, filmed as part of an episode of his series The F Word, Ramsay sets out for the Isle […]
GOOD NEWS! for the campaign to end the Guga hunt
Today, the Scottish Parliament ensured this petition will carry forward – and with it, a real chance to change the law. Today, MSPs made an important decision. They unanimously decided to keep Rachel Bigsby’s petition to end the Guga hunt open and carry it forward to the next Parliament. Here’s why this matters. The current […]
Silent Protest Outside Scottish Parliament as Guga Hunt Petition Hits 100,000
Today outside the Scottish Parliament, we stood in silence. Tape over our mouths. Not because we had nothing to say. But because more than 100,000 people have spoken out against the Guga hunt – and they are now in danger of being silenced. In less than 48 hours, the Petitions Committee will make their final […]