I should start by clarifying that a few months ago I took the plunge and founded a badger monitoring and … More
Author: ecolelogical
Give Badgers A Brake
October = Brocktober and brings us both National Badger Day (October 6th) and the Badger Trust’s “Give Badgers A Brake” … More
Hunting’s 2022 roll call of shame
Calls by the Hunting Office and Countryside Allowance yesterday for major landowners to life their suspension of licenses allowing “trail-hunting” … More
Badgered
Last year a dog-walker we know came across a blocked badger sett adjacent to the site of a new housing … More
Hounding Them Out
Last month brought the birth of a new body into the myriad of hunting and hound organisations in the UK. … More
Lead is dead
It’s been a sobering couple of weeks for die-hard shooters still refusing to abide by the BASC plea for a … More
Who is poisoning these birds of prey? (Dorset’s dead raptors)
After a couple of false starts the following article was published in Edition 8 of The West Dorset Magazine today. … More
Response to a written parliamentary question on SGAR use.
I’m indebted to The Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb for taking up the issue of Secondary Anti-Coagulant Rodenticide use/misuse in the … More
Of cats, containment and curfews. The shocking impact of domestic cats (and dogs) on wildlife.
Although it didn’t get much UK coverage, last week saw the ACT Government in Australia expand cat containment across Canberra, … More
The Brodifacoum Brouhaha
Regular readers will be aware of the death by poisoning of a white-tailed eagle earlier this year. The remains of … More