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on
02 December, 2010 : 17:00
Members of the Scottish Parliament today debated Stage 1 of the Wildlife and Natural Environment (Scotland) Bill with snaring and wildlife crime dominating much of the proceedings. It was widely agree...
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Christina on
02 December, 2010 : 12:45
….in a fair fight’. Well that’s the story we’re told about on professional trophy hunters in next months GQ magazine anyway.
The article which appears in January’s edition explores the world of the p...
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on
02 December, 2010 : 10:00
Web chatter has thrown up an interesting story from Italy. According to both anti and pro hunting forums the Italian military has managed to pull down the shutters on one of Italy’s most historic and ...
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Katy on
01 December, 2010 : 10:00
Whilst glancing at our face book page I can’t help but notice the ‘game is free range’ argument cropping up again. The clever marketing ploys of the game industry still sadly work for those ‘wishing’...
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on
27 November, 2010 : 16:00
The League is disappointed to learn that, from 2011, Benidorm will once again be hosting bullfights. Due to a protracted legal dispute between the bullring’s previous owner (Francisco Romero Leal) and...
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on
27 November, 2010 : 09:20
Our Mid Devon Support Group will be holding a stall at the Cruelty Free Christmas Fayre at the Corn Exchange on Market Street in Exeter tomorrow. It's open from 10am to 4.30pm and entry is free.
Fo...
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on
26 November, 2010 : 10:44
It has been an interesting week in a media sense. Trophy hunting and the commercial exploitation of wildlife have been recurring themes. Tigers under threat of extinction from both trophy hunters and ...
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on
26 November, 2010 : 00:01
The League's chairman, John Cooper QC, is interviewed for this week's video blog. He gives his views on the Hunting Act, the League's history and future, and the conviction earlier this week of Ri...
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on
24 November, 2010 : 13:00
Today’s Western Morning News features an all too familiar story of hunt havoc allegedly involving a member hunt of the Masters of Foxhounds Association (MFHA). According to the paper, farmer Stephen O...
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on
24 November, 2010 : 09:23
It's almost forty-eight hours since Richard Down, Huntsman of the Quantock Staghounds, earned his second conviction for a Hunting Act offence, and there has still been a public silence from the head o...
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Katy on
24 November, 2010 : 09:00
Like it or loathe it, the pheasant shooting season is now in full swing. Between 40 and 50 million of our feathered pheasant friends are being released to meet their dismal fate. The intensive rear...
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on
23 November, 2010 : 13:30
Before the Barbour clad apologists for chasing a deer with hounds until it is exhausted start to spin the latest court disaster into a tale of a misunderstood countryman, let’s have a closer look at y...
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on
22 November, 2010 : 20:00
There can be absolutely no doubt in anyone's mind now that the Hunting Act most definitely works. Today a man has been convicted for the second time for hunting illegally. This is the first time someo...
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on
22 November, 2010 : 12:15
Watching Countryfile on BBC One last night it was depressing to see yet another dismal attempt at justifying trophy hunting. The familiar and narrow minded argument in question came from a stalker who...
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on
19 November, 2010 : 10:14
The case of the death of the Exmoor Emperor opened a whole range of questions.
From a strictly legal perspective, if the landowner owned the sporting rights and the person who shot the Emperor had hi...
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on
19 November, 2010 : 00:01
A look through our archives, a meeting in parliament with Lord Donoughue, and a call to action over a photograph of a young girl trophy hunting, all feature in this week's video blog, introduced by Ka...
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on
17 November, 2010 : 13:50
Sometimes it is interesting to revisit a story in the aftermath of publication to gauge the level of traction upon the public conscience. No better recent example that I can think of involves the shoc...
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on
16 November, 2010 : 14:00
Last month, the Mayor of the French municipality of Fréjus announced that the city will no longer host bullfights. The decision was taken following considerable work from our partner organisations inc...
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Christina on
14 November, 2010 : 09:00
The Fifth Annual Wildlife Day held in October and hosted by the League Against Cruel Sports was a great success. Everyone enjoyed the day as it was filled with interesting and varied things to see and...
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Christina on
13 November, 2010 : 09:00
Our thanks go to one of our supporters for sending in an old copy of the Daily Mirror which features an article on it's front page about the League.
This story is a perfect example of how it is po...
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on
12 November, 2010 : 10:59
The debate about the death of the Exmoor Emperor rumbles on. Was the stag actually killed, was he the biggest in the country? Rumours abound and some suspect that the whole thing was a publicity stunt...
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on
12 November, 2010 : 00:01
This week's video blog includes the story of menswear retailer 'The Officers Club' using a bull terrier to promote their clothing, a visit to the SDLP Conference in Belfast, and a debate on hunting ...
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Christina on
11 November, 2010 : 15:00
Red Deer populations have hit their lowest number in a decade according to the official count undertaken by the Quantock Deer Management and Conservation Group.
The results were published in the Qua...
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on
11 November, 2010 : 14:20
Every year the gates of Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola Prison, open to the public for an increasingly popular rodeo show.
But this is no ordinary rodeo. The participants are in...
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on
11 November, 2010 : 08:31
Forgive me if this sounds like something from the guest publication segment on Have I Got News for You, but an interesting article appeared in the November 3rd edition of Clerks and Councils Direct.
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on
10 November, 2010 : 12:00
The League is kicking off a new campaign to promote cool sports over cruel sports with the sponsorship of Leeds United Ladies Football club.
The lucrative deal, which was donated to the League b...
Written by
on
10 November, 2010 : 10:30
Last week a MP close to the campaign for a repeal of the Hunting Act admitted that they do not have enough MPs to win such a vote. They did say, however that “A list has been drawn up of people though...
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Christina on
09 November, 2010 : 16:00
A DEFRA study which investigates the compliance of shooters to the Environmental Protection Regulations (1999) has revealed that a staggering 70% of shot ducks are illegally shot with lead ammunition....
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on
08 November, 2010 : 16:05
Last week’s television programme Making Scotland’s Landscape provided a fascinating account of the history of Britain’s shooting industry; and it didn’t pull any punches.
Following the invention o...
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on
06 November, 2010 : 08:16
The League's chairman, John Cooper QC, is today providing a live twitter feed from the annual conference of the Bar Council, being held in London today.
Mr Cooper, who writes for The Times and othe...
Written by
on
05 November, 2010 : 10:11
There comes a time when certain beliefs become an established fact as opposed to being just an opinion. The long debate on the hunting of wild mammals has reached that tipping point, where the ban on ...
Written by
on
05 November, 2010 : 09:30
The Environment Minister's attempts to defend the Scottish Government's snaring policy in Holyrood this week certainly made for interesting listening. Roseanna Cunningham was giving oral evidence to t...
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on
05 November, 2010 : 00:01
Louise reports from the Scottish Labour Party Conference in Oban, where we met politicians including Ed Miliband and Iain Gray. We lobbied on our snaring campaign, and launched our manifesto for the S...
Written by
on
03 November, 2010 : 12:00
Following the publication of our responses from MPs that showed there are a majority who would vote against a repeal of the Hunting Act, I have been interested to see the reaction from the Countryside...
Written by
on
02 November, 2010 : 16:30
The UN Biodiversity meeting in Japan concluded this weekend with a new 10 year plan completed and conservation targets set. This major agreement comes at a significant moment as the UN declared “Inte...
Written by
on
02 November, 2010 : 15:30
Despite considerable pressure from the League, luggage company Samsonite is still refusing to pull the plug on a new advert which glorifies bullfighting. The advert mimics a bullfight, replacing the t...
Written by
on
01 November, 2010 : 11:00
It’s November so it must be hunting season again...aniseed hunting season of course. The Monday after the ‘big opening weekend’ usually brings a larger share of press articles to scrutinise for campai...
Written by
on
29 October, 2010 : 15:20
Well its finally come to this! Gone are the marches for liberty and the signature heavy commitment to civil disobedience of the Hunting Declaration, instead the Socratic wonder that is the Countryside...
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on
29 October, 2010 : 09:15
In this week's video blog, Sarah talks about our work surrounding the shooting of the 'Exmoor Emperor', the start of the hunting season and our Hunt Crimewatch service, and our campaign to get Sam...
Written by
on
29 October, 2010 : 01:00
This week's note from Douglas Batchelor, Chief Executive.
I suppose that the hunters must feel more than a little beleaguered these days. Week by week the storm clouds gather over their party games i...
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Katy on
28 October, 2010 : 15:00
The European Union has proposed a five-year ban on cloning farm animals and livestock. However the cloning of all sorts of other animals, including racehorses and fighting bulls, remains legal. The pr...
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on
28 October, 2010 : 11:00
Britain's largest wild animal has been killed by a trophy hunter, at 9 feet tall and 24 stone, this celebrated creature was killed precisely because of his size and majesty. A hunting enthusiast on a...
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on
27 October, 2010 : 15:00
Reading through a recent paper on injuries sustained by working dogs I am struck by the high levels and varied injuries sustained by working dogs. Currently the debate in Northern Ireland is focused o...
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on
26 October, 2010 : 15:40
As part of a new bill nearly all animals in Israel could be afforded protected species status, instead of just certain animals. If the bill is successful, hunting would only be permissible in rare ins...
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Christina on
25 October, 2010 : 12:00
Yet another badger has suffered a painful and lingering death after being caught by a snare on the Isle of Wight.
The badger was found by a local farmer who took the injured animal straight to the v...
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on
25 October, 2010 : 11:10
I don’t know about the rest of the country but in the South East it was bloody chilly this morning! With the frost came the familiar ritual of leaving an extra five minutes to thaw the car in ad...
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Christina on
24 October, 2010 : 09:00
The Isle of Wight’s regional group are going to be extremely busy in the next few days trying to get everything ready for their fifth annual wildlife day. With speakers including Dave Williams, Chairm...
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on
22 October, 2010 : 10:00
This week's note from Douglas Batchelor, Chief Executive.
There is widespread recognition that we live in a world of finite resources that come under increasing pressure as the world’s population g...
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on
22 October, 2010 : 00:10
A 20,000 signature petition against snaring, our purchase of 50 acres of Somerset woodland, and the Scottish National Party Conference all feature in this week's video blog, presented by Christina...
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on
21 October, 2010 : 16:30
In response to the rather nauseating self-promotion by BASC in today’s quite obviously paid-for article in the Country Living supplement of the Belfast Telegraph, I take issue with BASC's regressive s...