Off the Leash - The Off the Leash Podcast 2.9

The Off the Leash Podcast 2.9

10/22/21 • 57 min

In The Off the Leash Podcast #19 we discuss the Mark Hankinson trial and the verdict that said ‘GUILTY’ – guilty as hell, of course you and your huntsman friends were educating the lower ranks on how to throw a smokescreen around illegal fox hunting. We are talking about COP 26, the global climate summit which is set against a recent analysis that found a 99.99% scientific consensus that the climate crisis has been caused by us (take that Nigel Lawson you idiot climate change denier) and that we have just a few years left to sort out – well, sort out everything: COP 26 really does represent humanity drinking in the last chance saloon - with Boris Johnson playing the role of chummy ‘pub landlord’. We name our Heroes and Villians of course, and give shoutouts to the Emily Williamson Festival, the National Trust AGM, and Dominic's 'State of the Earth' panel debate at COP 26. But we begin with some thoughts on Sir David Amess, the MP for Southend West who was murdered on the 15th of October...

The Guardian Obituary Sir David Amess
Rupert Evelyn, ITV News Mark Hankinson: Leading UK huntsman found guilty of telling others how to hunt illegally
League Against Cruel Sports Guilty! And now it’s time to strengthen the Hunting Act,
Hunt Saboteurs Association Website
The Guardian The heat is on: from the Arctic to Africa, wildlife is being hit hard by climate chaos
Derbyshire Against The Cull Voices from the Cull Zone (podcast)
Emily Williamson Festival (12 -13 November) Website
National Trust Annual General Meeting 2021
COP 26 State of the Earth Panel Debate (chaired by Dominic Dyer)

The Guardian Obituary Sir David Amess
Rupert Evelyn, ITV News Mark Hankinson: Leading UK huntsman found guilty of telling others how to hunt illegally
League Against Cruel Sports Guilty! And now it’s time to strengthen the Hunting Act,
Hunt Saboteurs Association Website
The Guardian The heat is on: from the Arctic to Africa, wildlife is being hit hard by climate chaos
Derbyshire Against The Cull Voices from the Cull Zone (podcast)
Emily Williamson Festival (12 -13 November) Website
National Trust Annual General Meeting 2021
COP 26 State of the Earth Panel Debate (chaired by Dominic Dyer)

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Interview #09 Derbyshire Against The Cull | Voices from the Cull Zone

In this podcast you'll hear 'Voices from the Cull', the uninterrupted voices of various members of the anti-badger-cull group Derbyshire Against The Cull, "a coalition of angry Derbyshire locals opposed to the mass murder of badgers", recorded in a number of different locations in the county on the 13th and 14th of October.
In a previous podcast we described members of DATC as heroes. Most of us will never know who they are because the risk of harassment and actual violence is so great they use pseudonyms, but that doesn't stop them from going out night after night after night, trying to halt the slaughter of badgers, because they believe it is morally and ethically the right thing to do - for animals and for justice and for fairness – so heroes without a doubt...

Derbyshire Against the Cull - Facebook page: facebook.com/DerbyshireAgainstTheCull/
Derbyshire Against the Cull - Twitter feed: @derbyshireATC
Derbyshire Against the Cull - Ko-fi donation page: ko-fi.com/derbyshireagainstthebadgercull

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Interview #10 Wild Moors | Burning Grouse Moors

"The only thing they care about is burning the heather to drive the numbers of grouse up - they don't care about wildfires at all, let's be realistic."
In the following interview you'll hear Charlie Moores talking with Luke Steele, executive director of Wild Moors. We're discussing grouse moors and grouse moor fires, rewetting our peatlands, support from the government and MPs for moving from a partial ban on burning to a full ban, COP 26, NGOs working together, and a new reporting scheme whereby we can all contribute data that will prove just how many fires the shooting industry are setting on the UK's largest carbon stores.
Charlie begins though by asking Luke with a new so-called 'burning season' just underway whether grouse estates were taking any notice at all of climate change concerns or the partial ban on heather burning that came into force on the 12th of June...
Wild Moors works with communities, governments and companies to unlock moorland from grouse shooting for the conservation of wildlife and habitats.