“A gamekeeper found guilty of killing a rare bird and setting traps illegally to capture others has been jailed for four months. George Mutch, 48, of Kildrummy, denied recklessly killing or injuring a goshawk and illegally taking away another goshawk and a buzzard in 2012. Mutch was found guilty of four charges at Aberdeen Sheriff […]

“Two Kirkby men admitted digging down to snare young badgers in the countryside to train terriers to attack them, a court heard. William Chrystal, 24 and Leighton David Shiers, 18, were caught with shovels, walkie talkies and were wearing camouflage jackets at a well-known underground sett in north Wales when police pounced.  Three more of […]

“The forests surrounding the ancient temple complex of Angkor Wat in Cambodia are once more echoing to the eerie, whooping calls of the pileated gibbon, a species, like so many in south-east Asia, that has been decimated by hunting and deforestation. Conservationists have reintroduced the gibbons as part of an ambitious project for the “re-wilding” […]

“A landowner has been fined £675 over the actions of a gamekeeper who illegally poisoned a buzzard.  Ninian Stewart was the first person to be convicted under a new wildlife crime law that means people can be held liable for the actions of employees. Stewart, 66, was the employer of Peter Bell who had previously […]

Legions of dedicated individuals are deep in the fight to save this majestic creature, the largest of the world’s cats. It’s an animal that faces myriad threats, as all carnivores do, but one factor is largely responsible for their current slide: poaching, driven by the Chinese demand for tiger products. Tigers have had more conservation […]

Two men have been charged with trespassing on private land with a firearm, following an incident in Ross-on-Wye last December. At the time of the arrest it was believed the men intended to poach deer from the land. Michael Julian Thomas, 49, of Greenfield Street, Bargoed and David Peter Corbett, 35, of Trosnant Crescent, Penybryn, […]