Tag: Protect the Wild
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Chris Packham and the North Dorset Hunt Sabs, Protect the Wild on the right to protest, Las Vegas, Mandelson and Starmer
The image above is from: Thorburn (Archibald). British Mammals. Two volumes. Longmans, Green & Co., 1920-1921. Chris Packham and his step-daughter Megan McCubbin spent five hours out with the North Dorset Hunt Sabs on a rather grey and wet day following and monitoring the notorious Blackmore and Sparkvale Hunt (BSV). They and the sabs refused…
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Protect the Wild
This post is just a brief message of congratulations to this wonderful organisation which has now existed for a decade. Founder Rob Pownall has written a book giving a short history: Protect the Wild, a Decade Fighting for Wildlife, available from the website and benefitting the charity. I have supported them since their early tentative…
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King Charles is displeased, pheasants, licences to kill, badgers, camels, plastic, water and animal sentience.
Pheasants I don’t read Hello! magazine, but someone at Protect the Wild does and has reported with great wit on a piece which records that Charles (king) is “devastated” and “livid”. I am stealing from the PtW writer’s style, but about what could it be? The rise of the Far Right in Europe, the war…
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May bug, PETA, Wild Justice, Protect the Wild, Icefish and more
May bug My son and his girlfriend thought that they had found, to their horror, a Cockroach in the bath and so did I at first, but it turns out to be a May bug or Cockchafer, the largest chafer beetle in the UK. I don’t recommend googling “cockchafer” without a filter. It seemed to…
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Wildlife rescue and protest round-up
At HART Wildlife Rescue the busy season has just peaked. Monday was a relatively easy morning with eight volunteers in (six is really the minimum needed, sometimes there are only two) and most of the ducks and geese released or about to be. There are still plenty of hedgehogs though, foxes, fledglings and nestlings and…
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Protect the Wild and the Hunt Saboteurs
Monday was a big day for both. Protect the Wild launched bloodbusiness.info – “A searchable database to help us all make informed choices about our spending” which I have been excited about for a while. It is in its infancy but will grow I am sure and I hope they will include a suggestion of…
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Every Animal Is Someone
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is celebrating its thirtieth anniversary this year and has launched this wonderful new slogan with typical skill and panache. This morning I received their Vanguard Member newsletter in which I was appalled to read that forced swim tests are still being carried out at the University of…