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Enough is Enough: The Hunting Act is Failing—It’s Time to Demand Real Change
Trail hunting is a lie. The Hunting Act is failing. It’s time to hold hunts—and the government—to account. Tell your MP enough is enough.
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Charlotte Smith
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Kate to end sick hunting tradition?
Kate Middleton has apparently said “no” to her children being smeared with animal blood after a hunting kill
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Protect the Wild
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Lame response from Quantock Hills authority to concerns about stag hunting
If those tasked with safeguarding this most precious of landscapes can't buckle down and get it done, what hope does wildlife have?
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Protect the Wild
Open consultation: Heather and grass burning in England
New proposals to ban heather burning on peatland to protect air, water and wildlife close 25 May 2025
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Charlie Moores
2
The Vesteys: a multi-millionaire hunting family
The kind of privileged people who we can expect to lead the pushback against the government's proposed ban on trail hunting
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Tom Anderson
4
BovineTB strategy must include protection for badgers
Blaming badgers for spreading bTB puts them at risk of illegal persecution, but the government's disease strategy lacks measures to tackle this issue.
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Protect the Wild
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Farming Minister's badger cull weak response to our concerns
Daniel Zeichner sticking with Defra-appointed bTb review panel we think is clearly pro-cull.
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Protect the Wild
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Hen Harrier Brood Meddling: "Illegal killing of Hen Harriers has continued."
Of course it has. Natural England may have had good intentions but landowners were only ever interested in how much money they make sellling grouse
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Charlie Moores
Are 'organic farms' as nature-friendly as we think? Not always...
Wildlife persecution still occurs on some organic farms, as a horrified Protect the Wild supporter recently told us.
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Protect the Wild
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Can trail hunting 'evolve'?
Protect the Wild sees no real appetite among the hunting community to evolve past bloodsports, so the law must evolve instead.
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Protect the Wild
Tarras Valley, Hen Harriers, and the lies of the shooting industry
The industry simply can't be trusted
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Charlie Moores
3
URGENT: Scrap the Kingston House Estate Fox Cull: A Call to Action
Please take action today
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Rob Pownall
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