Police arrested a hunt saboteur that helped shut down a shoot on the so-called ‘Glorious Twelfth’
Sheffield Hunt Saboteurs said that police arrested a member of their group on 12 August. The arrest occurred as hunt saboteurs disrupted a shoot on Wemmergill Estate, County Durham, on the first day of the grouse-killing season. In a Facebook post, Sheffield Hunt Saboteurs said that sabs had spent several hours that day preventing a […]
Men plead guilty to poaching grouse in North Yorkshire
Three men pleaded guilty in Teesside Magistrates Court on 7 August 2023, charged with a number of poaching offences. The men were searched by police on moorland near Lockwood Beck in the North York Moors National Park on 29 January 2023 after a tip-off. Cleveland Police said: “Officers immediately attended the area and detained the […]
Hen Harriers and greenwashing
Hen Harriers and greenwashing – the shooting industry avoids clamping down on persecution Thousands of pages have been written about Natural England’s ‘fix’ for the ongoing illegal persecution of Hen Harriers on grouse shooting moors, but as not everybody has read them it’s perhaps worth a quick recap in light of yet another attempt […]