Bob Elliot
Environment
Revealed: the 130,000 wild animals licensed to be killed by wildlife agency
Environment
Licensed to kill: the landowners who shoot thousands of brown hares
Landowners and farmers are licensed to kill more than 1,300 brown hares every year during the breeding season, prompting accusations that their young will be left to starve to death.
Environment
Mass deaths: nine million fish killed by diseases at Scottish salmon farms
Environment, Finance
Scottish Government under fire for £715k caged hen firm subsidy
Animal welfare campaigners have criticised the Scottish Government for giving a £715,000 subsidy to one of Scotland’s largest egg producers with tens of thousands of caged hens.
Environment
Video of dead fox being ripped apart by hounds in Fife prompts outrage
Environment
Revealed: the suffering faced by Scotland’s farm animals during live transport
Environment
Bats facing death due to railway bridge repairs
Data obtained by The Ferret has revealed that most of the maintenance work carried out on Scotland’s rail viaducts in the last two years has failed to include recommended surveys for bats.
Environment
Anger over licences to kill 4,000 ravens
Revelations that farmers and landowners in Scotland have been licensed to kill more than 4,000 ravens in the last four years have sparked a chorus of criticism from campaigners.