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I've just finished two evening of bat transect surveys near Swindon, covering farmland that unless something miraculous happens (eg the discovery of a very large colony of very

"...the warm water running down my face, wasn't - it was a red liquid better kept inside my inner tubes..."

Bo Beolens, the Fatbirder, was meant to give a

Talking Naturally was at the House of Commons yesterday for the launch of a campaign by the League against Cruel Sports (League) to ban the use

Many years ago – when there were only birds and no other forms of wildlife existed – I used to go to Portland Bird Observatory almost every

The League against Cruel Sports held a very successful Symposium on the Shooting Industry and Firearm Licensing, in Central Hall, Westminster on Thursday 25th April. 'Gunning For Change'

Malta has European permission to hunt Turtle Doves and Quail? Malta's hunters behave responsibly? Malta's hunters are conservationists? Malta's hunters abide the law? No. Utter, utter nonsense. The

Press-release from Rajan Zed, Universal Society of Hinduism, 26 April 2013

• Hindus urge Malta tourism boycott if it failed to curb illegal bird hunting Expressing shock at the

Where in Europe could the allowing of so-called 'legal spring hunting' (a misnomer in the first place) and already ridiculously high quotas be so massively taken advantage of

Press-release from BirdLife Malta concerning the FKNK, Malta's vociferous hunting organisation which attempts (like so many hunting organisations across the world) to offset its destructive activities by calling