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Fashion brand founder Johnnie Boden is a life patron of the Portman Hunt
Protect the Wild has been sent documents showing that businessman Johnnie Boden is a life patron of Dorset’s Portman Hunt. Two members of the Portman…
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Tom Anderson
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Over 500 incidents of hound neglect and mistreatment this season already
For years, the welfare of foxhounds has been a topic of debate, yet until now, there has been little data to quantify the incidents affecting these…
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Charlotte Smith
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REVEALED: Police force releases long-hidden agreement with Warwickshire Hunt
Warwickshire Police has released the controversial protocol it entered into with the Warwickshire Hunt. So, what have we found out?
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Protect the Wild
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England's most flagrant hunt removes all mention of foxes from its founding doc
A curious sign of the times as the trail hunting ban looms
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Protect the Wild
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Blackmore and Sparkford Vale Hunt ends 2024 with four days of carnage
2024 came to an end with the country's worst hunt causing untold suffering over a number of days.
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Protect the Wild
The next post office scandal? How flawed science justifies the slaughter of a "protected" species
Imagine this: for decades, an entire government policy causing mass death is founded on evidence that many scientists now say is deeply flawed.
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Protect the Wild
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Billionaire duke's vast estate no haven for wildlife
Duke of Westminster urged to treat "nature as a friend, not as a pest."
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Tracy Keeling
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Grouse Moor Licencing: the legal mess we always thought it would be
NatureScot caves in to the demands of the shooting industry
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Charlie Moores
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Hypocrite: Prince William issues 'urgent call' to 'make peace with nature'
Royals one of the UK's most wealthy and well-known shooting families
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Eliza Egret
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As the pheasant shooting season begins we reflect on how normalised shooting has become
Without any of the ludicrous fanfare surrounding the ‘Inglorious 12th’ but with 100 times the number of birds involved, today sees the opening shots…
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Charlie Moores
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Labour Conference met with defiant message to END THE CULL
On Thursday 4th July the UK General Election was held and the public voted for Keir Starmer’s Labour Party to form the next Government.
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Protect the Wild
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I ran a marathon for wildlife!
Thank you for your incredible support :)
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