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That's one way to badger farmers: squatters join battle to halt cull
London :: United Kingdom | 27 days ago
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Opponents of the badger cull have enlisted the help of members of the squatter and Traveller communities, threatening to occupy farm buildings and set up camps on private land where badgers will be shot. The threat, from a newly-formed protest group
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Animal welfare charity is to use DRONES to spy on people illegally hunting
London :: United Kingdom | 2 months ago
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16 March 2013 A leading animal welfare charity is to use surveillance drones to catch people illegally hunting. The League Against Cruel Sports will use cameras mounted on remote-controlled aircraft to monitor land previously off-limits. The charity
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Pack of hounds caught on camera ripping fox to pieces on busy main road in Abergwilli, near Carmarthen, West Wales, 'in breach of hunting ban'
London :: United Kingdom | 3 months ago
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19 February 2013 Shocked passengers on a bus watched in horror as a pack of hunting hounds ripped a terrified fox to bits on a busy main road...An outraged bus passenger used his mobile phone to take a picture of the grisly scene which he posted on
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Foxes' friends and foes say an urban cull is not the answer
Bristol :: United Kingdom | 3 months ago
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Graham Turner for the Guardian Bruce Lindsay-Smith recounts a night spent sitting in the dark at an upstairs window of a west London house with a semi-automatic .30M1 carbine rifle fitted with night sights and a silencer. He knew when foxes had come
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Gavin Grant: 'If David Cameron wants a vote on hunting let him have it. He will lose'
London :: United Kingdom | 5 months ago
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In a small local court last week, a jury was shown footage of a fox tearing across a field by the edge of a wood, pursued by a pack of hounds. After disappearing into the trees, the hounds emerge again baying. They are joined by huntsmen, and in a
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Rural tension to reach new high on Boxing Day
London :: United Kingdom | 5 months ago
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Suggested Topics Animosity between fox hunters and their opponents is more heated than at any time since the hunting ban was introduced in Britain eight years ago, both sides cautioned this weekend, just days before the biggest hunting day of the
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West Milford resident tries to set record straight on bear hunting
Teaneck :: NJ :: USA | 6 months ago
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I find it amazing that the anti-bear hunters and the media that is so biased in their favor blatantly lies about bear hunting. First they tell us we're shooting bears "in the deep woods" and we don't target nuisance bears. Then they are quoted as
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Activists plan to disrupt autumn badger cull after court appeal fails
Bristol :: United Kingdom | 8 months ago
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Activists are threatening to take to the woods and fields to attempt to disrupt a cull of badgers due to start this autumn in western England after a bid to halt the plans failed in the appeal court on Tuesday . Volunteers plan to patrol the cull
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Bear-hunting battle: Hunters, animal-rights groups face off over ban
Livermore :: CA :: USA | 12 months ago
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In medieval Europe, people tracked boars and stags with packs of hounds. Founding Fathers Thomas Jefferson and George Washington owned hunting dogs. But simply because something is an old tradition doesn't mean it should continue, say animal-rights
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RSPCA accused of political agenda over prosecution of Chipping Norton Set's hunt
Banbury :: United Kingdom | 1 year ago
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The animal charity is already taking action against one member of the Heythrop hunt, which the Prime Minister has ridden with and which is popular with fellow members of the so-called Chipping Norton Set in the Cotswolds. But now it has laid fresh
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