Claire Bellamy was found guilty of deliberately hunting the wild animal using a pack of dogs.

A MAN has been charged in connection with disturbing a pod of dolphins off the coast of Portknockie. The incident happened on Saturday, 27 June, 2026. Police received a report of a boat disturbing dol...

Three men were arrested

On 28 August 2026 a juvenile Marsh Harrier was found in the Westerdale area suffering from injuries that left it unable to fly.

Connor Bradshaw - who used his dogs to hunt and injure deer and hares - has been jailed and banned from keeping dogs for 15 years.

Appeal for information issued by Police Scotland, 15 September 2026: APPEAL AFTER RED KITE CAUGHT IN ILLEGAL TRAP – STRATHDON, ABERDEENSHIRE Officers are appealing for information after a bir…

Farmers say more action and harsher punishments are needed to tackle the illegal sport.

Former Tayside Police Wildlife Crime Officer Alan Stewart’s book, co-authored by Lindsey Hamilton, has now been published. Prelude to Murder: Revenge Killing on a Highland Estate focuses on t…

Press release from Police Scotland (31 August 2026) APPEAL AFTER BIRD OF PREY POISONED IN ABERDEENSHIRE Officers are appealing for information after a bird of prey was poisoned in Aberdeenshire. On…

A man who filmed himself deliberately setting a "lurcher-type dog" on a rabbit whilst kicking it and uploaded the video onto social media…

Farmers describe attacks and police receive nearly 9,000 reports of banned hare coursing.

A Dorset teenager has appeared in court and been sentenced for an offence of wilfully killing a badger following an investigation by rural crime…

An expert witness believes the dog had been used for badger baiting

A 48-year-old kennel huntsman has been fined after pleading guilty to hunting a wild mammal with dogs.

The man exercised a "level of wilful cruelty" to the dogs, Slough Borough Council says.

A man has been given a strict ten-year court order which bans him from having a dog off lead and carrying a catapult or air weapon.

Officers investigating the tampering of active badger setts near Newark have charged two suspects.

FI Real Estate Management LTD was fined £40,000 and ordered to pay the full amount within three months

Lincolnshire Police reveal items seized or handed over to officers investigating wildlife crime.

Today my husband and I visited Perth Museum for the first time. We’d been meaning to go for years, to see the Stone of Destiny and more. The temporary exhibition of the last letter of Mary Qu…

Some good news! The giant loophole in Scotland’s grouse shooting licences has been closed, via an amendment in the Natural Environment (Scotland) Act 2026. If you recall, grouse moor licensin…

Eight men have been sentenced after attending a hare coursing event at Keal Cotes and one man has been sentenced after hare coursing at South Somercotes.

Our Rural Engagement Team has now arranged for their destruction because their owner did not have the correct licences

Further to yesterday’s news that Scottish gamekeeper Russell Mason, 49, had pleaded guilty to battering a trapped Goshawk to death on a shooting estate in Perthshire (see here), the Daily Rec…

A Scottish gamekeeper has pleaded guilty to killing a Goshawk after he battered it to death after it was caught inside a Crow cage trap on a shooting estate in Perthshire. At Perth Sheriff Court th…

An estimated 726,000 migrating songbirds were illegally trapped and killed on the island of Cyprus last autumn, a new report from BirdLife Cyprus has revealed. Species including Blackcaps, Redstarts, ...

The Scottish SPCA and police are investigating after the animal was found seriously injured

A 45-year-old huntsman has pleaded guilty to killing a hare with hounds in the Warkton area of Kettering.

Police raided Robert Gillian's council house in May 2022, and found neglected birds and exotic animals

Across Sumatra, satellite images and field surveys traced two decades of clearing from park edges toward its core, tied to expanding oil palm plantations.

There have been reports of hare coursing across South Cambridgeshire

Three men have been banned from entering private and agricultural land across England and Wales following a major hare coursing investigation.

Three men have been sentenced for hare coursing and animal neglect

The Canary went out sabbing against the Middleton Hunt - and we found a bunch of animals (toffs) but some dedicated activists too