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Empowering people to protect British wildlife. Sign the petition for a proper ban on hunting ⬇️🐶🦊 https://protectthewild.org.uk/our-campaigns/proper-ban-on-hunting/proper-ban-hunting-petition/

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 3h

Please take action here: protectthewild.org.uk/cancel-the-b...

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 4h

In a few months, Mary Barton will break the record for Britain’s longest-running political protest.

Can Mary Barton save Britain’s badgers?

Parliament’s longest-standing protester is fighting to end the culls – but Labour’s Steve Reed is biting back

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 6h

“The badger cull is ending. The 2025 season is now nearly over, and this is the final year of industry-led culling in England’s high-risk and edge areas.”

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Badger cull winding down, says Defra secretary - Farmers Weekly

The badger cull will end by the close of this season, Defra secretary Angela Eagle confirmed in parliament, marking the clearest signal yet that the

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 7h

Not technically true as there are still ongoing licences but we are certainly winning the war to end the cull. The Govt needs to stop all culling NOW.

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Badger cull finally ends as MPs demand science not slaughter for TB control

After more than 230,000 badgers were killed under a controversial culling policy, the government has confirmed a new science-led strategy to fight bovine TB

www.somersetlive.co.uk

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 9h

Witnesses had described seeing a fox being chased across a sports field at Stowe School while pupils were in lessons.

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Huntsman found not guilty after fox found dead at Stowe School

A hunt master is found not guilty of two offences at Milton Keynes Magistrates' Court.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 11h

Probably our favourite quote from the debate on the Badger cull in Parliament earlier this week:

"The evidence is there for the badger cull to end immediately." - Irene Campbell MP

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 13h

A powerful truth spoken in Parliament. It’s time to end the failed, cruel badger cull once and for all.

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

I think we know the answer to that one! Every year hunting hounds are mistreated, neglected and many are then shot dead when they're deemed surplus to requirements.

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

Join the protest to help fifteen Gentoo Penguins escape the Sea Life basement

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Free the Sea Life Fifteen!

Join the protest to help fifteen Gentoo Penguins escape the Sea Life basement

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

MPs debated badger culling this week in Parliament, thanks to over 100,000 who signed our petition.

Watch these MPs tear down and destroy the badger cull debate and demonstrate how completely unnecessary killing hundreds of thousands of badgers is.

Now we keep the pressure on.

#news #wildlife

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

The best wrapping paper to ever exist?..

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

Disgusting behaviour. Please take action now: protectthewild.org.uk/lbc-petition/

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

A fox was trapped underground in London.
Instead of helping, LBC presenter Ian Payne laughed about it live on air, calling the fox “vermin” and joking that he might “let it waste away down there.”
This isn’t just one moment of cruelty. It is part of a wider culture that treats wildlife as a joke.

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

Ian Payne asked his audience whether he should “just let it waste away down there."

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LBC Presenter Jokes About Trapped Fox ‘Left to Waste Away’ in His Car Park

“just let it waste away down there.”

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

🐧 15 Gentoo penguins are trapped underground right now in the basement of SEA LIFE London.
Kept in artificial ice, bright lights, and the constant noise of tourists, all for profit.

Freedom for Animals is holding a protest outside SEA LIFE London on Sunday 19th October at 10.30am.

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

TAKE ACTION: Lavender Hotels plans to host an event for the Holcombe Harriers, a decision they must rethink.

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Tell Lavender Hotels: Compassion, Not Cruelty- Cancel the Holcombe Harriers!

Lavender Hotels plans to host an event for the Holcombe Harriers, a decision they must rethink.

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

Things you love to see! The fight to end the Badger cull continues with new momentum!

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 2d

Damn right! This is the TRUTH nobody wants to admit!

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 2d

Things you love to see! MPs supporting our calls for an immediate end to the Badger cull!

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 2d

The cull is collapsing under its own weight, and it is collapsing because people refused to accept a lie.

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Badger cull dismantled from all sides in landmark Parliament debate

The cull is collapsing under its own weight, and it is collapsing because people refused to accept a lie.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 2d

BRILLIANT STUFF! Well said Cat Eccles MP!

Speech from yesterday's debate on the Badger cull following our Govt petition reaching 100,00 signatures.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 2d

Huge thank you to every single one of you that signed our Govt petition to end the Badger cull. We are making progress!

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 3d

We will never stop fighting to end the Badger cull. Picture taken today outside Parliament ahead of the Parliamentary debate triggered by Protect the Wild’s petition.

Huge thanks to Betty Badger (Mary Barton) for years of relentless campaigning on this issue.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 3d

King Charles to front new nature documentary on Amazon Prime….HYPOCRISY!

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