Ginger Whinger

[Richard Bowler @RichardBowler1]

When you're told its the badgers fault for the decline in ground nesting birds. Early silage cutting is not a problem. This poor pheasant sitting on her nest begs to differ, chopped to pieces cutting silage. But hey, let's keep to the agenda of open season on the badger.

[Polly Clark @MsPollyClark]

The entire world needs to read this obituary. It would immediately be a better place.

[PETA UK @PETAUK]

Planning a trip to Japan? Please avoid Zao Fox Village.
These foxes are crowded together, many confined in tiny cages and forced to interact with tourists, despite being solitary animals.

[End Bird Shooting @EndBirdShooting]

One male pheasant and several females confined in barren raised cages - treated like production units to force out as many eggs as possible. Those eggs are then incubated, hatched, reared, and released into the countryside for one purpose: to be shot from the sky for 'sport'

[Philip Lymbery @philip_ciwf]

A closed season to protect pregnant hares was promised – where is the legislation?
“In the King’s Speech last week, the government quietly dropped a bill that would have finally given legal protection to hares after centuries of persecution”
Why????
Such a simple thing to save beautiful hares and their families
#madness
https://t.co/Ajn4JmSbrl

[End Bird Shooting @EndBirdShooting]

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[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

I hope this isn’t true. There are times when it’s more important to put country before party. This is one of them. Burnham’s longstanding commitment to a fairer voting system could transform our democracy & counter dire threat of a Reform UK government https://t.co/PNfl5GnB0X

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

At what point do we stop pretending our newspapers are ‘news’ and start calling them what they are…

Promotional pamphlets for the billionaires who own them and the agendas they’re selling.

[Matthew Stadlen @MatthewStadlen]

Finally, in Darren Jones, there is a Labour minister who is beginning clearly to spell out the story of this government.

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

A mother’s milk was meant for her baby… not for us.

Yet we take it and deny her calf the right to drink.

That device isn’t just metal… It’s separation. It’s pain.

Do we call this normal… or do we start questioning it?

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

Excellent News For Badgers 🦡

The Government has finally confirmed that all Badger culling will end including in the last cull licence area in Cumbria.

After 13 years and the slaughter of 250,000 Badgers at a public cost of £100 million this tragedy is finally over.

This victory reminds us that change happens when communities unite for what's right. Every voice, every share, every conversation matters.

[Ginger Whinger @Whinger2Whinger]

@politixintheuk @Valhalla51 Let’s have more of this, it is pure gold!

[Politics In The U.K. @politixintheuk]

Full-length Darren Jones speech on Badenoch’s stunt. In my humble opinion, Darren’s contribution to Labour has been significant.

[Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature]

This is disgraceful... it's a crime! 😡
Nesting birds in this reedbed last week... now burnt out, during breeding season! 🤬
Too many landowners think they are above the law!
Our birdlife is struggling enough as it is.. 😔
@DeborahMeaden @ChrisGPackham

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

Another victim of sports netting💔

This tiny fox cub was found in Hockley, completely entangled in a goal net, which was wrapped dangerously tight around his neck.

Thankfully, our rescuers arrived just in time to cut him free and transferred him to the specialist team at South Essex Wildlife Hospital, where he's now on the mend.

Sports netting may seem harmless, but for curious wildlife, it can be deadly. Protect them by removing and storing sports netting after use and disposing of damaged netting responsibly 🥅

If you spot wildlife in need, here’s how you can help: https://t.co/vIIqFZ2VA6

[𝙋𝙝𝙞𝙡 𝙈𝙮𝙚𝙧𝙨 @PhilMyers53]

Here's an idea.

Let's get #𝙑𝙤𝙩𝙚𝙇𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙧 trending!

#𝙑𝙤𝙩𝙚𝙇𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙧 https://t

[PETA France @PETA_France]

Cet appareil empêche les bébés de boire le lait de leur mère, uniquement pour que les humains puissent s'en emparer : l'industrie laitière brise le cœur des mères. 💔

🎬 @JohnOberg 🐄

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

A "dove release" at a wedding or funeral is a death sentence for the birds.

The white "doves" sold for releases aren't doves. They're domestic pigeons bred to be small and white, and they have no survival skills outside a coop.

DIY releasers often buy white Ringneck Doves or King Pigeons, which have zero ability to navigate home. Nearly all of them die.

Even professional releases with trained homing pigeons kill birds. Hawks take them in the air. Cars hit them when they land exhausted. They collide with windows. They get lost and starve.

Rehabbers pull them in with broken wings, broken legs, raging trichomoniasis, and bodies so emaciated the birds can barely stand.

One rehabber described treating a white pigeon from a release whose throat infection had hardened so completely it distorted the shape of his skull.

There is no version of this tradition where the birds "fly away and live happily ever after." That's the marketing story. The reality is that you paid to traumatize and usually kill a domestic animal for a 15-second photo moment.

If someone you know is planning a dove release for a wedding, funeral, or celebration, tell them. Bubbles, sparklers, dried flower petals, or ribbon throws all photograph beautifully and don't kill anything.

The birds are not props, they are live animals that need proper care.

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

The RSPCA is looking for a man after a ginger cat was found taped inside a pet carrier, wrapped in a bin bag, and thrown over a fence into a garden in Basildon, Essex. The three-year-old cat was taken to a vet, where it was found to have no injuries but was clearly stressed. A CCTV image of the man, described as white and wearing glasses, a dark jacket, and a light blue T-shirt, has been released as investigators appeal for witnesses.

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

Fingers pinching its mouth open as a tube is pushed down its throat, this disturbing image shows how monkeys are sacrificed to check the safety of new weight-loss drugs. 

The unprecedented footage supplied to The Mail on Sunday was secretly filmed by a lab worker at two UK testing plants who said he was horrified the 'immense distress' the animals endured.

The UK testing facilities he worked at are contracted by major pharmaceutical companies to conduct required safety tests using animals before they can progress to human clinical trials.

Both sites are Home Office regulated and operating completely within the law.

But the former lab worker said he wanted the footage and details of what happened to be released to ensure an informed public debate on the use of animal testing.
He described being 'haunted' by the shrieks and whimpers of animals during the trials, which could last for up to two years.

'My conscience wouldn't let me just quit and walk away,' he said. 

'I felt if I was able to provide a window into this world that had been hidden from public view, perhaps it would change.'
Campaigners immediately called for the Government to 'accelerate' its pledge to phase out tests using animals, branding the footage 'shocking.'