The dark side of the UK's gamebird shooting industry.
Another excellent piece from Channel 4 News.
WARNING - video contains distressing content.
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime #EndGame
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/11/04/t...
Another excellent piece from Channel 4 News.
WARNING - video contains distressing content.
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime #EndGame
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/11/04/t...
The dark side of UK’s gamebird shooting industry – Channel 4 News
Last Friday evening, Channel 4 News had another good piece exposing the dark side of the UK’s gamebird shooting industry. It included some pretty gruesome undercover footage from gamebird rea…
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November 4, 2026 at 5:18 PM
The dark side of the UK's gamebird shooting industry.
Another excellent piece from Channel 4 News.
WARNING - video contains distressing content.
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime #EndGame
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/11/04/t...
Another excellent piece from Channel 4 News.
WARNING - video contains distressing content.
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime #EndGame
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/11/04/t...
Gas chambers and bio-security: the dark side of Britain's gamebird industry
With gamebird shooting now on the government’s radar, Alex Thomson explores why official licensing may help with understanding the impact the unchecked industry is having on wildlife.
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With gamebird shooting now on the government’s radar, Alex Thomson explores why official licensing may help with understanding the impact the unchecked industry is having on wildlife.
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Gas chambers and bio-security: the dark side of Britain's gamebird industry
With gamebird shooting now on the government’s radar, Alex Thomson explores why official licensing may help with understanding the impact the unchecked industry is having on wildlife.
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November 2, 2026 at 11:34 AM
Gas chambers and bio-security: the dark side of Britain's gamebird industry
With gamebird shooting now on the government’s radar, Alex Thomson explores why official licensing may help with understanding the impact the unchecked industry is having on wildlife.
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With gamebird shooting now on the government’s radar, Alex Thomson explores why official licensing may help with understanding the impact the unchecked industry is having on wildlife.
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The dark side of UK’s gamebird shooting industry – Channel 4 News
Last Friday evening, Channel 4 News had another good piece exposing the dark side of the UK’s gamebird shooting industry. It included some pretty gruesome undercover footage from gamebird rea…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
November 4, 2026 at 6:41 PM
The dark side of UK's gamebird shooting industry - Channel 4 News raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/11/04/t...
The dark side of Britain’s gamebird shooting industry – Channel 4 News..
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The dark side of Britain’s gamebird shooting industry
The government is now calling for evidence about the impact of the gamebird shooting industry on biodiversity and biosecurity.
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November 1, 2026 at 6:11 AM
The dark side of Britain’s gamebird shooting industry – Channel 4 News..
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The dark side of Britain’s gamebird shooting industry
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The dark side of Britain’s gamebird shooting industry
The government is now calling for evidence about the impact of the gamebird shooting industry on biodiversity and biosecurity.
www.channel4.com
October 30, 2026 at 8:26 PM
The dark side of Britain’s gamebird shooting industry
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An excellent report. So many reputations to be made for journalists willing to investigate things like this
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The dark side of Britain’s gamebird shooting industry
The government is now calling for evidence about the impact of the gamebird shooting industry on biodiversity and biosecurity.
www.channel4.com
October 31, 2026 at 7:55 PM
An excellent report. So many reputations to be made for journalists willing to investigate things like this
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154 Hen Harriers confirmed 'missing' or illegally killed in UK since 2018 - most of them on or close to grouse moors.
Today is closing date for Defra's Call for Evidence on gamebird shooting - please participate by 23.59hrs! Details in blog 🔽
#RaptorResearch
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Today is closing date for Defra's Call for Evidence on gamebird shooting - please participate by 23.59hrs! Details in blog 🔽
#RaptorResearch
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/11/01/1...
154 Hen Harriers confirmed ‘missing’ or illegally killed in UK since 2018, most of them on or close to grouse moors
Message from editor: Today (Sunday 1st November 2026) is the deadline for responding to Defra’s Call for Evidence on the impact of gamebird releases & shooting. Defra is asking anyone who…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
November 1, 2026 at 8:15 AM
154 Hen Harriers confirmed 'missing' or illegally killed in UK since 2018 - most of them on or close to grouse moors.
Today is closing date for Defra's Call for Evidence on gamebird shooting - please participate by 23.59hrs! Details in blog 🔽
#RaptorResearch
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/11/01/1...
Today is closing date for Defra's Call for Evidence on gamebird shooting - please participate by 23.59hrs! Details in blog 🔽
#RaptorResearch
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/11/01/1...
Please respond to Defra’s Call for Evidence on the impacts of gamebird shooting. Closes 23.59hrs 1st Nov...
In 2024 five Hen Harrier chicks were found dead in a nest on a grouse moor.
Post mortem results, uncovered by FOI requests, suggest that all five of the chicks had injuries consistent with being stabbed.
Rad more about this case, including what you can do about it, here: shorturl.at/kndq2
Post mortem results, uncovered by FOI requests, suggest that all five of the chicks had injuries consistent with being stabbed.
Rad more about this case, including what you can do about it, here: shorturl.at/kndq2
November 1, 2026 at 6:56 AM
Please respond to Defra’s Call for Evidence on the impacts of gamebird shooting. Closes 23.59hrs 1st Nov...
Just remind us of the bright side of Britain's gamebird industry, would you.
November 4, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Just remind us of the bright side of Britain's gamebird industry, would you.
The dark side of Britain's gamebird shooting industry.
Channel 4 News
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Channel 4 News
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The dark side of Britain’s gamebird shooting industry
The government is now calling for evidence about the impact of the gamebird shooting industry on biodiversity and biosecurity.
www.channel4.com
November 1, 2026 at 12:43 PM
The dark side of Britain's gamebird shooting industry.
Channel 4 News
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Channel 4 News
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Defra call for evidence on gamebird shooting closes midnight today.
I've sent my response but feel like a student who has not excelled. The examiner seems to have a tenuous grasp of a) the subject & b) how to word a consultation clearly.
But here are my notes: markavery.info/2026/11/01/d...
I've sent my response but feel like a student who has not excelled. The examiner seems to have a tenuous grasp of a) the subject & b) how to word a consultation clearly.
But here are my notes: markavery.info/2026/11/01/d...
November 1, 2026 at 11:19 AM
Defra call for evidence on gamebird shooting closes midnight today.
I've sent my response but feel like a student who has not excelled. The examiner seems to have a tenuous grasp of a) the subject & b) how to word a consultation clearly.
But here are my notes: markavery.info/2026/11/01/d...
I've sent my response but feel like a student who has not excelled. The examiner seems to have a tenuous grasp of a) the subject & b) how to word a consultation clearly.
But here are my notes: markavery.info/2026/11/01/d...
The dark side of Britain’s gamebird shooting industry
https://www.channel4.com/news/the-dark-side-of-britains-gamebird-shooting-industry
https://www.channel4.com/news/the-dark-side-of-britains-gamebird-shooting-industry
The dark side of Britain’s gamebird shooting industry
The government is now calling for evidence about the impact of the gamebird shooting industry on biodiversity and biosecurity.
www.channel4.com
October 30, 2026 at 9:00 PM
The dark side of Britain’s gamebird shooting industry
https://www.channel4.com/news/the-dark-side-of-britains-gamebird-shooting-industry
https://www.channel4.com/news/the-dark-side-of-britains-gamebird-shooting-industry
Please respond to Defra’s Call for Evidence on the impacts of gamebird shooting. Closes 23.59hrs 1st Nov...
If you’ve ever found piles of shot gamebirds dumped in laybys, or stuffed inside bin bags & dumped in the woods, chucked in rivers etc, please send in your information to Defra’s Call for Evidence on the impacts of gamebird shooting. Closes 23.59hrs 1st Nov.
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Dead Partridges & Pigeons dumped in lay-by in East Riding of Yorkshire
Another shooting season is underway and that means incidents of dumped/fly-tipped gamebirds have also started again. Here’s one from this month, with dead Woodpigeons and Red-legged Partridge…
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November 1, 2026 at 6:50 AM
Please respond to Defra’s Call for Evidence on the impacts of gamebird shooting. Closes 23.59hrs 1st Nov...
Well over due for banning driven grouse and non native gamebird (mainly pheasant) releases and shoots.
The dark side of the UK's gamebird shooting industry.
Another excellent piece from Channel 4 News.
WARNING - video contains distressing content.
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime #EndGame
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/11/04/t...
Another excellent piece from Channel 4 News.
WARNING - video contains distressing content.
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime #EndGame
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/11/04/t...
The dark side of UK’s gamebird shooting industry – Channel 4 News
Last Friday evening, Channel 4 News had another good piece exposing the dark side of the UK’s gamebird shooting industry. It included some pretty gruesome undercover footage from gamebird rea…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
November 4, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Well over due for banning driven grouse and non native gamebird (mainly pheasant) releases and shoots.
TIME IS RUNNING OUT!
Deadline: 11.59PM on 1 Nov - that's this Sunday!
Have you responded to Defra’s call for evidence on gamebird shooting? If you’ve been impacted by gamebird shooting and/or activities related to it, this is your chance to be heard!
Find out more here: buff.ly/k3Gb56G
Deadline: 11.59PM on 1 Nov - that's this Sunday!
Have you responded to Defra’s call for evidence on gamebird shooting? If you’ve been impacted by gamebird shooting and/or activities related to it, this is your chance to be heard!
Find out more here: buff.ly/k3Gb56G
October 28, 2026 at 8:45 AM
TIME IS RUNNING OUT!
Deadline: 11.59PM on 1 Nov - that's this Sunday!
Have you responded to Defra’s call for evidence on gamebird shooting? If you’ve been impacted by gamebird shooting and/or activities related to it, this is your chance to be heard!
Find out more here: buff.ly/k3Gb56G
Deadline: 11.59PM on 1 Nov - that's this Sunday!
Have you responded to Defra’s call for evidence on gamebird shooting? If you’ve been impacted by gamebird shooting and/or activities related to it, this is your chance to be heard!
Find out more here: buff.ly/k3Gb56G
Hats off to shooting lobby/GWCT who cleverly got this piece in Guardian during the UK consultation on impacts of gamebird shooting. Allerton's a commercial shoot. But its results of habitat creation boosting farmland birds are far from unique, 1/2
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘This is a robust recipe’: the experimental farm bucking the decline in UK birds
Allerton Project attracts abundant wildlife and its success can offers clues to reversing the sharp drop in populations
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2026 at 3:13 AM
Hats off to shooting lobby/GWCT who cleverly got this piece in Guardian during the UK consultation on impacts of gamebird shooting. Allerton's a commercial shoot. But its results of habitat creation boosting farmland birds are far from unique, 1/2
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
154 Hen Harriers confirmed 'missing' or illegally killed in UK since 2018, most of them on or close to grouse moors raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/11/01/1...
154 Hen Harriers confirmed ‘missing’ or illegally killed in UK since 2018, most of them on or close to grouse moors
Message from editor: Today (Sunday 1st November 2026) is the deadline for responding to Defra’s Call for Evidence on the impact of gamebird releases & shooting. Defra is asking anyone who…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
November 1, 2026 at 9:23 AM
154 Hen Harriers confirmed 'missing' or illegally killed in UK since 2018, most of them on or close to grouse moors raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/11/01/1...