As of today, we’ve taken the decision to shutter The War on Wildlife Project. The Project was set up to ‘help tackle the war on wildlife’ and was always intended to be a hub, a network of guest posts and campaigns with associated podcasts. Since the launch of Off the Leash Podcasts six months ago, […]

  Charlie Moores talks with Nicola Hodgins, Policy Manager at WDC (Whale and Dolphin Conservation). about the Grind – the killing of Pilot Whales and dolphins in the Faroe Islands. Our conversation was triggered of course by the unprecedented mass killing of more than 1400 Atlantic White-sided Dolphins by Faroese hunters on September 12th, and […]

  Charlie Moores in conversation with Dr Alex Lees, Senior Lecturer in Conservation Biology at Manchester Metropolitan University. Recently Alex and Dr Jack Shutt published a paper that was widely reported in the mainstream media titled “Killing with kindness: Does widespread generalised provisioning of wildlife help or hinder biodiversity conservation efforts?”  That’s quite a striking […]

“The majority of Scots are opposed to fox hunting, and so, as the public body responsible for promoting Scotland’s land, FLS should amend its fox control policy to reflect public opinion, as it had previously planned to do.” A Freedom of Information request (FOI) submitted by Edinburgh-based wildlife charity OneKind has revealed that Forestry Land […]

A shortcast about fox cub hunting or cubbing from Charlie Moores. A version of this audio first appeared in an Off The Leash Podcast in August (link below) but with so many reports of cubbing on social media at the moment, we felt that it would be helpful to state again what cubbing is and […]

Guest post by Mark Williams. an independent writer who previously served a decade as a columnist and Editorial Board member of long-running Science magazine.   Geronimo: All aboard the express towards scientific reason and compassion. The plight of Geronimo the alpaca has captured media attention and gained undeniable public interest. The extensive legal battle, recent […]

We have consistently described our national parks – supposedly the most important and most precious of our landscapes – as ‘so-called national parks’. We have said that because our ‘so-called national parks’ are – to a large extent – in fact managed not to conserve the magnificence of the Cairngorms, the Peak District, or the […]

  “…not only does [the way the land is managed] not deliver for wildlife, or the environment, or local communities, but it also doesn’t even deliver for the grouse shoots themselves.” Luke Steele, August 2021 Charlie Moores talks with Luke Steele about grouse moors, upland rewilding, and the role peatlands can play in carbon storage. […]

There are a number of ways to end the scandal and disgrace that is industrialised grouse shooting, from books like Dr Mark Avery’s ‘Inglorious: Conflict in the Uplands‘, Hen Harrier Day, blogs like Raptor Persecution UK that focus on wildlife crime, and targeting landowners that allow wealthy shooters to use birds as live targets on […]

During the infamous webinars organised by the ‘Hunting Office’ and leaked across the internet by the Hunt Saboteurs Association, Mark Hankinson, Director of the MFHA (who is due in court this September to answer criminal charges off the back of these webinars) discussed terrier-men. he acknowledged that their presence on hunts that are supposed to […]