Sitemap - 2023 - Protect the Wild

Ten reasons why 2023 was a good year for wildlife

GOOD NEWS: RNLI rejects hunting money

Yet another fox torn apart in residential garden

Kent Hounds' terriermen used superglue to treat dogs' horrific injuries

Inside Protect the Wild: why did we create Protectors of the Wild?

GUILTY: Criminal hunter Chris Woodward convicted three times since July

Boxing Day hunting protests near you

Boxing Day Parade: Southdown and Eridge Hunt defies Lewes council

Inside Protect the Wild: why did we create the Protecting the Wild Equipment Fund?

Ren's Wildlife Hospital planning application

Inside Protect the Wild: why write news articles?

Hunter accused of six charges of animal cruelty

Radios (and bodycams) for Roaming Sabs

Hunter avoids prison after torturing foxes

Sick gamekeeper filmed badger torture for social media

The Secret Monitor: Without fear or favour?

Unelected Defra ministers won't protect wildlife

CAUGHT ON FILM: One man's words show the criminality of hunts

Criminal justice system failing wildlife

Lewes Council chooses wheelbarrow race over hunt parade

Helping wildlife in Holderness

GOOD NEWS: Hunting is dying as yet another pack folds

Raptor persecution: licencing shooting industry not the answer.

Can you help us build something incredible to protect wildlife?

Chris Packham demands end to 'appalling abuse of animals' on I'm a Celeb

COVID: Damning WhatsApp messages show how Tory MPs looked after their gun-wielding friends

The Secret Monitor: Partners in crime

Hunt saboteurs hospitalised by violent Quantock Stag Hounds riders

South Shropshire Hunt terrierman mows down man breaking his leg

Devon: Right to Roam shows how pheasant shoots abuse environment

Putting an 'eye in the sky' on Cheshire's Hunts

The Secret Monitor: The Curre and Llangibby Hunt...

WANTED: North Yorkshire Police searching for three members of Sinnington Hunt

'The Forgotten Foxhounds' animation is out now!

Roaming to Ukraine: Part One - from the frontline against illegal hunting to the frontline of an illegal war.

ROTHER DISTRICT COUNCIL: No 'reasonable excuse' to bend the law for a Hunt parade

DEER HUNTING: Has the British Deer Society landed a death blow?

SHOCKING: Hunt rider filmed striking whip at cyclist

Equipment Fund: Ten out of ten for our wonderful supporters!

Scotland: Shooting industry fails to bully politicians over snares

JAILED: Fox hunter given 18 months for almost killing saboteur

Northern Ireland urgently needs to change hunting law as another pet dies

The Secret Monitor: Stag hunting not cruel enough?

Investigation reveals widespread use of rat poison to target raptors on Northumberland shooting estate

The King’s Speech: biodiversity and climate clearly not a priority.

Monitoring badger setts in Derbyshire

Covid-19 Inquiry: Government put more thought into hunting and shooting than supporting women

This is the solution to end stag hunting forever

Call for new law to protect children from the brutalities of hunting

Depraved hunt master throws fox to hounds as child watches

Shooting industry fails to criminalise Chris Packham

Hunting hounds run rampage in Devon

The Secret Monitor. Want to trespass with a firearm on public land?

Ben Wallace and the Right's doomed push for the 'countryside' vote

‘Remember, remember’ hedgehogs on 5th November

VICTORY: Plans for Northern Ireland badger cull quashed

Moorland Association Director guilty of illegal burning of moorland

This is the solution to end fox hunting for good

Recording hunts across Yorkshire and Humberside in 4K!

Protect the Wild news round-up 22/10/2023

Smoke from burning grouse moors choke Sheffield

Hunt sabs say huntsman sacked for 'beating a hound almost to death'

The Secret Monitor: the depraved 'supporters' of the Quantock Stag Hounds

Labour pledges to end badger cull

FOIs reveal Badger cull approved in National Nature Reserves

UK FIRST: Wales snare ban comes into force today

Police investigate after Warwickshire Hunt tears apart fox

Court drops all wildlife crime charges against gamekeepers working for Prince William’s best friend

London Badger Cull Protest – Protesting a Decade of Dead Badgers

A body cam for the wildlife heroes on Salisbury Plain!

MP demands answers from Police and Crime Commissioner about hunting bias

Stag killers no longer welcome in this Somerset pub

We're building something special and I want you to be a part of it

Snares: Scottish government must not be hoodwinked by gamekeepers

Buzzard shot in North York Moors National Park

Body cams for Somerset's badger monitors!

Ex-jockey jailed for badger baiting after horrific footage found on phone

Hunt attacks homes and vehicles of sabs and monitor

Gloucestershire Council must ban hunting on its land

Hunt kills deer and uses ‘falconry exemption’ to hunt illegally

Sinnington huntsman filmed dumping dead animals to attract foxes

The vile Pheasant shooting ‘season’ has started

Trail cam and night vision optics to Derbyshire!

Scotland's hunting ban will finally be enforced

Protect the Wild – how supporters EMPOWER us too!

Blackmore & Sparkford Vale Hunt murder or dig out foxes three times in one week

Heythrop Hunt hounds tear up a fox in front of hunt saboteurs

The Secret Monitor: Dishing the dirt on stag hunting

A bundle of kit to protect wildlife in Shropshire!

No prosecution for hunters who buried fox alive

Stop the Tedworth Hunt parading this Boxing Day

Stop the Mendip Farmers Hunt parading this Boxing Day

The grouse shooting industry's 'illusion of truth'

We must stop a pro-hunt takeover of the National Trust

The Royals must be called out for their obsession with wildlife slaughter

Protect the Wild news round-up 15/09/2023

Defra public consultation on hedgerows

Notorious fox hunters just helped sabotage the trophy hunting bill's chances

Holderness Hunt kills fox in front of monitors, police take 'no further action'

Mid Devon District Council should ban the Tiverton Hunt from parading this Boxing Day

North Yorkshire Council group likens hunting ban to Nazi Germany

BADGERS SAVED! With your help, this community has protected badgers!

Newly released figures show the badger cull is far from winding down

Men plead guilty to poaching grouse in North Yorkshire

Here’s why Chitterne Parish Council needs to ban the Royal Artillery Hunt from parading this Boxing Day.

Trail cam on its way to West Yorkshire!

Scotland has banned fox hunting, so why are cubs being hunted right now?

Grant Shapps is anti-hunting. Will he do the right thing and ban fox hunting on MoD land?

The Welsh government could be subsidising the largest pheasant-rearing farm in the UK

Scotland: Avian Flu confirmed in pheasants

This is why Easingwold Town Council shouldn't permit a Boxing Day parade to the Badsworth, Bramham, York South Hunt

Stop the Sinnington Hunt parading on Boxing Day

Protect the Wild news round-up 04/09/2023

We created a map of North Yorkshire showing what effect a council ban on hunting could have

An eleven-year-old boy suffers life-changing injuries during a shoot

The biggest wildlife genocide of our time is happening right now

Our Substack community is helping activists on the frontline protecting wildlife

More hunts have folded and the season's barely begun

GUILTY: Ollie Finnegan convicted of illegal hunting three times in less than a year

Radios for Hull's wildlife protectors!

'Eyes in the Field': Monitoring hunting in the North York Moors National Park

Sarah Moulds case shines a light on speciesism in the UK

Protect the Wild news round-up 29/08/2023

Blackmore and Sparkford Vale Hunt filmed ripping up fox

Yet another pet seriously injured by hunting hounds

JAILED: Twin brothers who left a charity cyclist to die

Punching a horse is atrocious, but so is murdering fox cubs

Scotland snare ban: Join Chris Packham in making your voice heard

Recording equipment to the North York Moors

Hunt saboteurs 'seriously assaulted' while monitoring a deer hunt

Petition launched to end hunting after family cat killed by hunt

It's time for Scotland to join Wales and ban snares

Gillingham and Shaftesbury Show: Who's not telling the truth?

Scottish Water looks set to ban grouse shooting on their land

Scottish Greens describe grouse shooting as 'festival of violence'

THREE more Hen Harriers 'disappear' on grouse moors

Protect the Wild news round-up 18/08/2023

Hunting community blames 'extremists' for being issued Community Protection Notice

Radios to monitor the Wynnstay Hunt!

Protecting the Wild Equipment Fund is up and running!

Protect the Wild visits animal rescue: Charlie's Place

Cottesmore Hunt rider who kicked and punched horse due to stand trial

This community urgently needs your help to save badgers

Protect the Wild news round-up 14/08/2023

Reclaim Our Moors Walk 2023 (Moscar Moor)

Sam Jones of the Cottesmore Hunt pleads not guilty to assault and illegal hunting

Avian Flu confirmed in a Red Grouse

MoD silent despite 23000 emails urging hunting ban

GUILTY: Huntsman Chris Woodward in court yet again

Hen Harrier ‘brood meddling’ slammed by Wild Justice

Hen Harrier 'brood meddling' slammed by Wild Justice

Have Your Say: Government Firearms Licencing Consultation

OPINION: The grouse shooting industry must be shut down

TRIAL DATE FIXED: Avon Vale terrierman to face jury

OPINION: The REALITY behind the 'Glorious 12th' - traps, snares and wildlife crime

OPINION: There's nothing 'glorious' about killing grouse

Who's got the 'begging bowl' out now?

Evil brothers buried charity cyclist in stink pit on shooting estate

Protect the Wild news round-up 04/08/2023

SumUp denies hunts card payment services

Chepstow Show won’t review decision to host Curre and Llangibby Hunt

A ‘nation of animal lovers’, more like a nation of wildlife killers

Sad Badgers: Protesting the badger cull in Oxford

Spoof sports show used to expose sick pastime of 'cub hunting'

Cub hunting is a stain on the UK and it MUST end

Protect the Wild news round-up 28/07/2023

Defra appoint grouse moor owner to 'key role'

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Police slap a newly merged hunt with an 'ASBO' before it even got going

‘Moor’ bad news for grouse shooting in run up to Inglorious 12th

If Labour get into power they MUST deal with rampant illegal fox hunting

Why strengthening the Hunting Act isn't the answer to ending fox hunting

Four men given suspended prison sentences for hare coursing

What do we mean by "Empowering people to protect British wildlife"?

BREAKING: United Utilities to end grouse shooting

Cattistock Hunt escapes prosecution despite railway line fox chase

Protect the Wild - Empowering people to protect British wildlife.

Cottesmore huntsman Sam Jones charged with assault

Oxford: 'Sad Badger' protests government cull strategy

With only one fox hunting pack left in Kent, the clock is ticking on hunting in the county

Another not guilty verdict: a stark reminder that the Hunting Act is broken

White-tailed Eagle: first chick born in England since 1780

Petition North Yorkshire Council to ban trail hunting on council owned land

Police take no further action against Kent hunt that killed a fox in someone's garden

Heads-up shooting industry: Avian Flu is still killing wild birds

Scottish court convicts Duke of Buccleuch's Hunt supporter of assaulting a hunt saboteur

White-tailed Eagles poisoned in Northern Ireland

GUILTY: Former Avon Vale Hunt thugs charged with illegal hunting

Wynnstay huntsman pleads guilty of threatening behaviour

VICTORY: County Down Staghounds bites the dust

Do you live in Cheshire or north Wales? You can save fox cubs from being murdered

World's tiniest violin plays for shooting industry

Nazi salute hunt supporter pleads guilty to harassment

Illegally set spring trap causes death of Barn Owl

Melbreak Huntsman Christopher Nixon convicted of assault (Part Two)

Melbreak Huntsman Christopher Nixon convicted of assault (Part One)

RSPB: The Economics of Driven Grouse Shooting Report

Farming industry reports cattle-to-cattle transmission ‘most common form’ of bTB spread

New badger cull licences risk 'as many as 29,000' more lives this year

Hen Harriers: Illegal killing major cause of death, says RSPB

Avian Flu forces lockdown of largest pheasant rearing farm in UK

Sun sets on failed Peak District Bird of Prey Initiative

GOOD NEWS: Two Somerset beagle packs to merge

Time for shooting and hunting to acknowledge the truth about 'pests'

Time for shooting and hunting to acknowledge the truth about ‘pests’

The government murdered 33,627 badgers in 2023

Natural Resources Wales and one-sided 'compromise'

Natural England has been covertly expanding badger cull areas

A visit to Secret World Wildlife Rescue

CAMPAIGN: End Hunting on MoD land

Woodcock petition debate: through the looking glass with the shooting lobby

"The Shooting Industry: it's not just hunts that kill foxes"

New review shows pheasants are still riddled with lead despite industry promises

Hunt master caught on camera 'thrashing' a hound with his whip

Stark images of a snared badger highlight the need to ban snares now

Police are investigating the Wynnstay Hunt for interfering with a badger sett

Hunt thugs allegedly hospitalised a disabled man

Gamekeepers burn moors above Sheffield

Police chief commends hunt saboteurs, saying illegal hunting is 'prolific'

Northern Ireland: Foxhunting legal but cracking under direct action

Police arrest two more in connection with Avon Vale Hunt video

GOOD NEWS: Avon Vale Hunt bites the bullet

Avon Vale Hunt laughing as two foxes 'dug out' and hunted

Lewis Hamilton-fronting car company sponsoring fundraisers for hunts

Royal Agricultural University: Sick stunt as fox corpse tied to car roof

BREAKING: Three members of the Avon Vale Hunt arrested

HUNT HAVOC: Sab drone records moment hound almost hit on road

York: Fox fatally injured in illegal snare

DARTMOOR: camping ban and pheasant shooting

Raptor persecution: if we think 'shooting' first who can blame us?

Banning Snares: a parliamentary debate in name only

More dead buzzards and another gamekeeper in court

Ending Bird Shooting - let's talk about foxes