Guest post written by the Hunt Investigation Team (HIT), a highly skilled, specialist team with years of experience investigating and fighting animal abuse. HIT has been leading calls for the banning of snares and are working with a range of individuals and organisations to raise public awareness of the use of snares by the shooting […]

Many people are rightly outraged by the way that young pheasants and partridges reared for shooting are treated under the law: as chicks they are treated as livestock (which has implications for activists as well as for the birds themselves), once released as wild birds. Dr Mark Avery explained why in typically sardonic style, saying […]

Many people are rightly outraged by the way that young pheasants and partridges reared for shooting are treated under the law: as chicks they are treated as livestock (which has implications for activists as well as for the birds themselves), once released as wild birds. Dr Mark Avery explained why in his usual laconic style, […]

We’ve frequently posted articles and podcasts about the ever-increasing killing of badgers to protect the dairy industry (see – Badger Cull). What we haven’t been able to cover (as we don’t have direct experience) is the mental and physical toll that witnessing the suffering of a much loved native mammal has on monitors and saboteurs. […]

In support of our ‘Language Matters’ campaign, which looks at how language is used to influence how we all think about wildlife, we’re delighted to host a guest post from Dr Adam Cruise. Adam is an investigative environmental journalist, travel writer and academic. He has contributed to a number of international publications, including National Geographic […]

As we move into winter, pressure on wildlife becomes even greater. Finding food becomes harder just as the energy demands of cold nights intensify. At the same time, the urge to photograph spectacular flocks of birds or solitary animals set in stark but beautiful landscapes become harder to resist. The risk of course is that […]

In support of our ‘Language Matters’ campaign, which looks at how language is used to influence how we all think about wildlife, we’re delighted to host a guest post from Tracy Keeling. Tracy is (to quote) a recovering playwright, staff writer at The Canary and freelance environmental journalist. A long-time friend of the WoW Project, […]

In support of our ‘Language Matters’ campaign, which looks at how language is used to influence how we all think about wildlife, we’re delighted to host a guest post from Liv Cooper, a liaison officer with the Dorset-based charity Birds of Poole Harbour. Liv is a nature artist and conservationist with a particular focus on […]

In support of our ‘Language Matters’ campaign, which looks at how language is used to influence how we all think about wildlife, we’re delighted to host a guest post from author and campaigner Bob Berzins. Bob lives on the edge of the Peak District. Climbing on gritstone crags and running over the moorlands has brought […]

In support of our ‘Language Matters’ campaign, which looks at how language is used to influence how we all think about wildlife,  we’re delighted to host a guest post from author and campaigner Bo Beolens. Bo has had a life-long interest in the natural world. He runs the vast Fatbirder website, his ever-expanding attempt to […]

The High Speed Railway project (or HS2) will destroy or impact important wildlife-rich habitat in a country that is rapidly losing its precious biodiversity (as clearly stated in the State of Nature Report 2019) for the first world problem of saving a few minutes on a rail journey. Costs are spiralling ever-upwards (ironically because high-speed […]

Think fox hunting, which was banned by the Hunting Act 2004, is a ‘thing of the past’? Think again. Hunts have been breaking the law since the Act was passed – helped by sympathetic landowners who issue licences despite a wealth of material proving the terms of those licences are being routinely broken. Jack Riggall, […]

Think fox hunting, banned by the Hunting Act 2004, is a ‘thing of the past’? Think again. Hunts have been breaking the law since the Act was passed – helped by sympathetic landowners who issue hunting licences despite a wealth of evidence proving that the terms of those licences are being routinely broken. Jack Riggall, […]

Think fox hunting, banned by the Hunting Act 2004, is a ‘thing of the past’? Think again. Hunts have been breaking the law since the Act was passed – helped by sympathetic landowners who issue hunting licences despite a wealth of evidence proving that the terms of those licences are being routinely broken. Jack Riggall, […]

Think fox hunting, which was banned by the Hunting Act 2004, is a ‘thing of the past’? Think again. Hunts have been breaking the law since the Act was passed – helped by sympathetic landowners who issue licences despite a wealth of material proving the terms of those licences are being routinely broken. Jack Riggall, […]

Think fox hunting, which was banned by the Hunting Act 2004, is a ‘thing of the past’? Think again. Hunts have been breaking the law since the Act was passed – helped by sympathetic landowners who issue licences despite a wealth of material proving the terms of those licences are being routinely broken. Jack Riggall, […]

We’ve spent much of this week discussing the start of yet another six months of shooting grouse in the uplands (see eg Inglorious). In one of our articles we posted several images from Twitter that had been uploaded by sabs groups, who appeared to have had a very successful day on the moors (much to […]

Guest post by ‘Bara Brith’, who has asked to remain anonymous because of their time spent walking grouse moors “My love of upland moors soured when I moved to a part of the country where they seem to be used for driven grouse shoots. I used to pop up on moors looking for black grouse, […]

Guest post by Emily and Rose Jones, with additional material and links by The War on Wildlife Project:   2020 has been dubbed ‘Year Of The Gamekeeper’ by the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), who say ‘The aim of the campaign is to raise awareness of gamekeepers; what they do, how they support […]

Guest post by campaigner, activist and cat-lover Emily Jones: In the UK, where there are no plans to manage the cat population nationally or locally, cat owners like myself who also value wildlife are presented with a challenge… “It’s that time of year when we look out the window and see birds building their nests. […]

Our War on Wildlife takes many shapes. Some of what we do is deliberate and targeted – the illegal wildlife trade and hunting for example. In other instances we humans have waded into an ecosystem and tried to ‘fix’ something by introducing a new species into the environment (often linked to agriculture, pest control, or […]