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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 1h

Support for ending the Guga hunt keeps growing, with the petition now on course to become one of the biggest in Scottish Parliament history.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 5h

CX Power's own scoping report for the massive Chapelcross AI data centre, near Annan in Scotland, shows that both red squirrels and Great Crested Newts have been sighted within 2km of the proposed data centre site.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 20h

They are enough, let's leave them be!

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A massive joint operation between the RSPCA and West Midlands Police has rescued dozens of neglected animals, including puppies, kittens, ducks, geese, and owls, from an animal sanctuary in Halesowen. All animals are now safely under RSPCA care, but zero arrests have been made.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The UK's first bird flu outbreak of 2026/27 has been confirmed at a property in Ness, Isle of Lewis, home of the Guga hunters. Specific details - including the species affected - are not known at this point.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

DAERA’s public consultation on culling badgers is open til 9 October. It presents three badger intervention strategies to address bovine TB: mass culling, a selective Test and Vaccinate or Remove (TVR) approach, and a vaccination-only policy.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There is a consultation open about the Avonmouth data centre, which is less than half a kilometre from the Severn Estuary. The Estuary and surrounding lands provide a home for protected birds and Great Crested Newts. Please contribute to the consultation and make your voice heard for nature

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

DeepGreen wants an underwater AI data centre off Maine, in habitat for the endangered North Atlantic right whale (fewer than 400 left). But it's not just 'over there'. Microsoft trialled them off Scotland in 2018 through Project Natick. How long until it hits UK shores?

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Reform UK MSP Jamie Langan has twice pressed the Scottish Government to safeguard the Guga hunt as a cultural tradition - defending a practice that involves young Gannet chicks being ripped from their nests and bludgeoned to death.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Campaigners in the US are successfully slowing the rolling out of Data Centres in the US. These destructive projects would have decimated habitats for wildlife if they had gone unopposed. The success of grassroots movements in the US shows that we can do it here too.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The removal of Hallyard's Castle from ILI's Cato data centre site in Auchertool, Fife, was just confirmed. This is exactly the type of overgrown ruin that roosting bats and nesting birds love. Yet no ecological survey of the ruins has been published in Cato's planning documents.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

From today, cosplaying hobbyists are pulling on their tweed, loading their guns, and standing in lines while beaters drive pheasants into the sky towards them. By the time the ‘season’ closes on 1 February, tens of millions of pheasants will have been killed.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If the petition to end the Guga hunt gets to 120,000 it will be the 3rd most signed petition in the Scottish Parliament's history.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Exciting news! Wild pine martens have naturally migrated to Wiltshire and have bred at the Longleat Estate. An adult pair were spotted earlier this year, and now healthy new kits have been captured on camera too.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The movement against habitat destroying AI data centres is growing. Check out these 30 local petitions hosted on change.org

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A new Wildlife Trusts report exposes the devastating impact of unchecked mega-dairies on UK wildlife. There are more than 40 mega-dairies in the UK, but lack of government oversight leaves their growth and pollution unmonitored. “Zero-grazing" mega-dairies keep cows inside all year round.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

SDC M40 in Gerrards Cross is one of the most harmful sites yet proposed. It puts a gas power station next to ancient and wet woodland, home to great crested newts, bats, grass snakes, skylarks and more. But it bypassed the local council and went through by the government as a Section 35 direction.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In its Seabird Conservation Action Plan, the Scottish Govt says we must protect seabirds like the “majestic Gannet”, yet it refuses to protect Gannets from being deliberately and cruelly killed during the Guga hunt. The hypocrisy is truly staggering.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Recent research and an investigation by the Guardian question whether using AI technology to better understand how animals communicate may have less than positive outcomes.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In 2021, developers of land at Pinewood Studios agreed nearly £190,000 to protect Black Park. It funded mitigation for rare Bechstein's bats and breeding birds. In 2026, a data centre on that same land secured £15,000, not even ringfenced for wildlife. Why did Buckinghamshire Council accept a cut?

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As development encroaches on coastal habitats, some gulls increasingly use rooftops and other urban structures as alternative breeding sites. Ten species of UK breeding seabirds, including the Herring Gull and Great Black-backed Gull, are now on the Red List due to alarming population declines.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

An annual report reveals how criminals are getting away with torturing and killing wildlife. In 2025, there were 2,149 reports of suspected wildlife crime, but 41 convictions. The Wildlife and Countryside Link report shows a stark reality: most wildlife crimes can be committed with total impunity.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This mesmerising image of a diving Gannet won the world's top bird photography prize. It was taken by photographer Henley Spiers off the coast of Shetland in Scotland. THIS is where Gannets belong, not in the body bags of the Guga hunters!

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The land is in Great Gaddesden in Hertfordshire, and has been arable farmland for 80 years. Company Naturum will transform the land to woodland, scrub and enhanced grassland. But is it as altruistic as it seems...?

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One of the UK's largest AI data centres, at Chapelcross in Scotland, is planned within 20km of 10 internationally designated protected sites. These sites are important habitats for countless animals.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Join Action Against Staghunting and march against one of the most horrific blood sports in the country. Bring banners, flags, drums, whistles, megaphones and a loud voice! 11am, 24 October, meeting at Tiverton bus station, Phoenix Lane, EX16 6LU

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Epping Forest already gets up to five times the nitrogen its woodland can safely take. That's according to the developer's report for Google's North Weald data centre, which will need 46 backup generators. Its wildlife assessment was confidential. Why won't Epping Forest District Council publish it?

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Manx Whale and Dolphin Watch (MWDW) says almost 100 sightings have been reported so far this year, compared to just 20 sightings last year. "It's because the food is here, more than anything," said MWDW's Jen Adams.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Keeping the guga hunt legal makes a mockery of everything this government claims to stand for. It’s time they stopped bending over backwards to reassure those who want to keep killing gannets" www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2026...

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Guga hunt could return next year as first minister rules out law change

Protect the Wild has accused John Swinney of sidelining serious conservation and animal welfare concerns surrounding the guga hunt.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is what we love to see! Sandilands Golf Club in Lincolnshire went into liquidation in 2018 and was bought by the National Trust. The Trust has completely transformed the land into a coastal nature reserve. It’s a mosaic of wetlands, grassland and coastal scrub.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Lets keep the pressure up to stop these habitat destroying AI data centres!

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you agree that badgers in Wales deserve to live, please sign the Senedd petition, demanding that the Welsh government does NOT cull badgers. To tackle bovine TB effectively, Wales should focus on improving cattle management and biosecurity rather than scapegoating badgers.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Moles are commonly deemed as pests, and are often killed by pest controllers, including those employed by local councils in the UK. The animal only has the most basic protection under UK law.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We need even STRONGER action against AI!

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This coming week, our team is taking on the ultimate Yorkshire challenge! We're hiking the Yorkshire Three Peaks: 39km and more than 1,500 metres elevation in one day. Please sponsor our latest challenge as we raise money for our work to end hunting for good! (see comments).

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just because something is a tradition does not make it ethical or justified in the 21st century. The Guga hunt - where baby Gannets are bludgeoned to death for a delicacy on the Scottish island of Sula Sgeir - is a prime example of this.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ordinary members of the public have been prohibited from using glue traps to catch rodents. Yet it remains legal in England for anyone to buy one from a shop or online. That makes no sense. If members of the public cannot legally use glue traps, they should not be able to buy them.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Stick up for the dingy skipper butterfly. Sign the petition to oppose the monstrous 1GW Chapelcross data centre. Chapelcross is one of the biggest hyperscale data centres planned in the UK.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The government's public consultation on fireworks legislation is open NOW. If you believe there should be a ban on the public sale and use of fireworks to protect animals, have your say. (See comments)

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

SIX Local Wildlife Sites lie near DC01UK, including one on its boundary. These are homes to diverse wildlife. The developer acknowledged it could significantly damage one via hydrological pathways, yet because LWS aren’t statutory, they are less protected. But what about the animals living there?

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Did you know that UK gulls like the Herring Gull and the Great Black-backed Gull are now on the conservation Red List? While they seem common in towns, their natural coastal populations are facing a severe crisis and have plummeted by over 50%.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Scottish Rewilding Alliance wants YOU to join them and demonstrate outside Holyrood on Weds 30 September. The Scottish Parliament will be debating a parliamentary motion calling for urgent action to tackle these threats at scale.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Scottish Government has ignored more than 118,000 people who have signed a petition to end the cruel killing of Gannets.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Have you added your name? If you believe that Wales' badgers shouldn't be scapegoated by the farming industry and politicians, please sign the Senedd petition, demanding NO BADGER CULL IN WALES.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Check out this resource to find out about whether your area is under threat from the UK's ill advised data centre rollout. Data centre's threaten our wildlife. We need a moratorium now!

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The gull's life was saved thanks to a woman wading into a river to save him from drowning. Bude resident Viki Herbert-Coulson watched the bird try fly, but get dragged down into the river by a weight attached to a fishing line. When she rescued him, she realised that a hook was impaled in his throat

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

On 16 Sept, OpenAI boss Sam Altman said "the world is right to be afraid" of AI development. On 20 Sept, OpenAI's Head of AI for Countries, George Osborne, said, "opposition to data centres is very much like" NIMBYism. They're gaslighting us and destroying animals' homes. We don't want this.

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