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Madison Miah: Creative Journal/ Cinematography

Felix Nowinska: Producer

Toby Frame: Cinematography/Sound

Kieran Holden: Director

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Hunting includes the chasing, capturing or killing of any bird or animal.

Not all hunting is illegal, but there are many laws and legal restrictions that help protect wildlife. Illegal hunting can include hunting outside of an open season, using traps or weapons that cause unnecessary suffering, or hunting without a special licence.

It's not just an offence to hunt illegally. You are also breaking the law if you:

assist in an illegal hunt, such as allowing hunters to use your land or providing them with dogs

watch or attend an illegal hunt

Knowing when hunting is illegal can be challenging. Different animals and birds have different laws to protect them. If you're planning to go hunting, it's important you know what you can and can't do.

(Research by Madison Miah)

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Hunting includes the chasing, capturing or killing of animals and birds.

Not all hunting is a crime, but there are many different laws to protect the different species of animals and birds. These laws cover things like:

where you can hunt

when you can hunt

if you can use dogs or not

the types of weapons and traps that can be used

Many animals are also protected by law, meaning it’s illegal to hunt them at any time unless you have special exemptions.

(Research by Madison Miah)

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Badgers

Bats

Beavers

Deers

Dolphins

Dormice

Foxes

Game birds

Hares

Otters

Porpoises

Rabbits

Red squirrels

Water voles

Whales

Wild birds

Wild cats

(Research by Madison Miah)

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As well as poaching in Lincoln there are other wildlife crimes such as...

Coursing

Offences against badgers and bats

Offences against birds

Egg theft and collection

Collection of or trade in protected species and animal products

Not registering animals which require a licence

Taking protected plants

Use of poisons, snares or explosives to kill or injure animals

Animal cruelty

Hunting with dogs

Introducing invasive species

Killing or capturing, damaging or destroying the habitat of any protected animal

Illegal fishing

(Research by Madison Miah)

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These are the byelaws for the following places:

The Arboretum, Boultham Park and The Lawn

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If we are unable to go and shoot with our group, we will have to come up with other ways of finding footage, such as archival. This can pose an interesting challenge. I believe we should be aiming for a shock type of experience, something that could really hit home to a viewer, not something that could cause emotional distress but something that could really put poaching into perspective.

(Written by Kieran Holden)

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Create a brief introduction to what Lincolnshire police do to prevent poaching.

Cut to the poaching footage provided with the use of a voiceover in the perspective of the animal's being poached to show their perspective.

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Guilt

Regret

Sadness

Powerful

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Emailed Hazel RE the archival footage, awaiting a response

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A day in the life of a rural crime officer

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Britain's Brutal Blood Sport | ﻿Dan O’Neill Investigates | BBC Earth

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Operation Galileo return to tackle hare coursing

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Farmer attacked with metal bar by hare coursers

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Lincolnshire Police drone finds poachers' car hidden in a wood.

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Lincolnshire Police arrest 9 people and seize 5 dogs for hare coursing

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Lincolnshire Police intercept suspected hair coursers

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LANCASHIRE POLICE - Lancashire Constabulary

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Poachers today are most often gangs of highly organised, selective and effective killers of the countryside. They stake out their target areas to find the best times to go in and wreak their terror and destruction; make a quick killing (literally); and get out again without detection.

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Poachers today are most often gangs of highly organised, selective and effective killers of the countryside. They stake out their target areas to find the best times to go in and wreak their terror and destruction; make a quick killing (literally); and get out again without detection. Of course, the trail of carnage left behind is clear for all to see the following day, but they don't care. By then they will be many miles away, having sold their illegal carcasses, celebrating their success at another good night's work.

The Lincolnshire Deer Group instigated the formation of a committee to tackle this problem, which was set up in the autumn of 2001 and has had considerable success in raising the profile of the problem with the police and the public through the media. The South Lincolnshire Poaching problem has been publicised throughout the local press, Shooting Gazette, The Field, Shooting Times as well as BBC Radio Lincolnshire, BBC Look North and East Midlands today.

The committee is made up of representation from local estates, British Association of Shooting and Conservation (BASC), Country Land and Business Association (CLA), National Farmers Union (NFU), Police, RSPCA, National Gamekeepers Organisation (NGO) and the Lincolnshire Deer Group.

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For further information contact secretary@lincolnshiredeergroup.co.uk

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" The Lincolnshire Poacher" is a traditional English folk song associated with the county of Lincolnshire, and deals with the joys of poaching. It is considered to be the unofficial county anthem of Lincolnshire. It is catalogued as Roud Folk Song Index No. 299.

The earliest printed version appeared in York about 1776. In 1857 it was written; "This very old ditty has been transformed into the dialects of Somersetshire, Northumberland and Leicestershire, but it properly belongs to Lincolnshire." The song is said to have been a favourite of King George IV.

"The Lincolnshire Poacher" was the regimental quick march of the 10th Regiment of Foot and its successors the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment and the 2nd Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment, who are known as "the Poachers". Also, it was the regimental march of the 2nd battalion The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire). It is the principal musical theme of the quick march of the Intelligence Corps. Prior to 1881 this Battalion had been the 81st Regiment of Foot (Loyal Lincoln Volunteers). It is also the authorised march of The Lincoln and Welland Regiment of the Canadian Forces.[citation needed ]

The tune was used by many New York Regiments during the American Civil War as The New York Volunteer.It is also used in LG washing machines.

The Lincolnshire Poacher was also the marching song for the 20th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force, during the First World War.

When the Royal Air Force College Cranwell, the officer training school of the Royal Air Force, was formed in Lincolnshire in 1919, its first Commandant, Air Commodore C. A. H. Longcroft, sought permission from the then Regimental Colonel of the Lincolnshire Regiment to adopt the march as the quick march of the College.[citation needed ]

Anglo-Catholic congregations in the Anglican communion sometimes use the tune as a setting for a hymn sung in procession that begins, "The Happy Birds Te Deum Sing, 'Tis Mary's Month of May."

In 1961, Benjamin Britten arranged the song as no. 3 in Volume Five of British Folk Songs. Frank Newman[who? ] instrumented the song for four hands on piano. In 1978, the Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band issued "The Lincolnshire Poacher" as its follow-up single to their successful " The Floral Dance", and it was included on the 1978 album The Floral Dance.

The first two bars of the tune were used as an interval signal on the numbers station known as Lincolnshire Poacher.

Radio Lincolnshire used the melody from the end of the song's chorus as the signature tune for its news jingle when it commenced service in 1980 and in 1988 commissioned UK jingle company Alfasound to write a package of jingles based on the song. Variations on this theme continued until early 2006, and today the station still uses a version with a less pronounced melody[clarification needed ] from the folk song.

The melody is used in Harold Baum's "The Glyoxylate Cycle" in The Biochemists' Songbook, and in the 1950 novelty song " The Thing", sung by Phil Harris, which was #1 in US charts in 1950.

The melody was sung in the 1940 film Tom Brown's School Days by the Rugby students and is the theme song of the movie. It was also sung during a hall assembly in the 1951 version.

The melody is used, often with more Irish-themed instrumentation and singing, to create the off-colour folk song "The Chandler's Wife".

As is usual with folk songs, the lyrics differ slightly between sources, but the following are typical:

When I was bound apprentice in famous Lincolnshire,
I serv'd my master truly, for nearly seven odd year,
Till I took up to poaching, as you shall quickly hear.
Oh, 'tis my delight on a shining night, in the season of the year.

As me and my companions were setting up a snare,
The gamekeeper was watching us - for him we did not care,
For we can wrestle and fight, my boys, and jump o'er anywhere.
Oh, 'tis my delight on a shining night, in the season of the year.

As me and my companions were setting four or five,
And taking on 'em up again, we took a hare alive,
We plopped her into my bag, my boys, and through the woods did steer.
Oh, 'tis my delight on a shining night, in the season of the year.

We threw him over our shoulders, and wandered through the town,
We called into a neighbour's house, and sold her for a crown,
We sold her for a crown, my boys, but I did not tell you where.
Oh, 'tis my delight on a shining night, in the season of the year.

Success to every gentleman that lives in Lincolnshire (Or: Bad luck to every magistrate)
Success to every poacher that wants to sell a hare,
Bad luck to every gamekeeper that will not sell his deer.
Oh, 'tis my delight on a shining night, in the season of the year.

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" The Lincolnshire Poacher" is a traditional English folk song associated with the county of Lincolnshire, and deals with the joys of poaching. It is considered to be the unofficial county anthem of Lincolnshire. It is catalogued as Roud Folk Song Index No. 299. The earliest printed version appeared in York about 1776.

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No Panda Poaching I Red Panda Network I Firefox Guardian

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How skin poaching of Asian elephants could crush the species

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Horrific Reality Of Tiger Poaching | Tigers About The House: What Happened Next | BBC Earth

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The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridors once used by the elephants.

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The earth is large enough for all the share, but mankind's heart is not kind enough to care.

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The question is are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?

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Sir David Attenborough's thought on elephant poaching.

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Attenborough elephants | David Attenborough: Elephant poaching is a crime that "will rest heavily on humanity’s shoulders." | By Christiane AmanpourFacebook

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David Attenborough: Elephant poaching is a crime that "will rest heavily on humanity’s shoulders."

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Sir David Attenborough on wildife trafficking

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Earth Stories - Climate Disaster Documentaries

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David Attenborough On Wildlife Trafficking | Garden In The Sky | Earth Stories

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Poem

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Poaching information

Quotes

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Kieran Holden: Director, Editor and Researcher.

Madison Miah: Researcher and Creative Journal.

Toby Frame: Researcher

Felix Nowinska: Researcher

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Due to some difficulty with our community we weren't able to film any raw footage.

After a meeting with our course leader we decided to use archival footage and other information and create a video from that footage.

Kieran decided to write an amazing poem about the detrimental affects of poaching and how bad animals are treated and decided to use that as voice over for the documentary.

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100 elephants are illegally poached every day and more than 30,000 African elephants are killed every year.

There are two distinct species of elephants in Africa: the savannah and the forest elephant. Both species are critically endangered! The elephant population in Africa is currently estimated to be around 400,000, a decline of over 100,000 in just the past decade - and poaching continues to threaten those numbers

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Demand for ivory in the illegal luxury trade drives the slaughter. A single tusk can weigh up to 250lbs and can command $1,500/lb

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100 elephants are illegally poached every day and more than 30,000 African elephants are killed every year.

There are two distinct species of elephants in Africa: the savannah and the forest elephant. Both species are critically endangered! The elephant population in Africa is currently estimated to be around 400,000, a decline of over 100,000 in just the past decade - and poaching continues to threaten those numbers.

Why Are African Elephants Poached?

Demand for ivory in the illegal luxury trade drives the slaughter. A single tusk can weigh up to 250lbs and can command $1,500/lb. The situation is so dire it is having a potential evolutionary impact. In Mozambique, a greater proportion of elephants are being born without tusks and researchers believe this is an evolutionary protection - following years of civil war and untenable poaching of Africa's iconic "big tuskers". Elephants are herbivores and require space to roam and feed. They cover vast areas to forage for sustenance and their migratory patterns mean they fertilize and churn over the soil as they follow their natural, geographical instincts.

Their habitats are shrinking and they've lost over 50% of their habitat in the past 40 years. Though they are protected in some reserves and countries, the loss of habitat often forces them to cross dangerous landscape where poaching or human-animal conflict is a high risk.

What We're Doing to Increase The African Elephant Population

2023 Elephant Herd Translocation

Thanks to the generous support of Over & Above Africa donors and our partners on the ground, the Babanango Game Reserve and Manyoni Private Game Reserve, we successfully transferred a small breeding herd to safer grounds. These "translocations" have been become to ensuring the survival of elephant populations, preventing biodiversity loss and protecting the needs of African. communities

Sometimes game reserves are so successful in their conservation that animals must be moved to another reserve to conserve the land for the remaining animals. Relocating elephants to other like-minded game reserves is an effective process used to steward the land. If you don't have the land and food to feed the animals, the animals start impacting on other species. So it's critically important to have an equilibrium between all species on a game reserve.

We worked together with our friends on the Nambiti Private Game Reserve to financially support the moving a bull elephant and male rhino on another game reserve.

Why Elephants are Important

Elephants are one of the 5 iconic African species and are a big draw for safaris and eco-tourism, bringing in revenue important for local economies and conservation. Elephants help maintain the ecosystem and clear pathways in forested areas, which promotes biodiversity for other species. They are intelligent, self-aware social animals who are led by a matriarch. When the matriarch falls victim to poaching, the herd loses the guidance and inherent knowledge she provides about where to graze, which waterholes are safe to frequent and which are safe areas to traverse. Often the juvenile members of the herd do not have enough knowledge to help increase the herd's chances of survival.

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Stopping Elephant Ivory Demand | Initiatives | WWF

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Each year, at least 20,000 African elephants are illegally killed for their tusks. A decade-long resurgence in demand for elephant ivory, particularly in parts of Asia, has fueled this rampant poaching epidemic. The elephant ivory trade not only threatens the very survival of this iconic species and…

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Each year, at least 20,000 African elephants are illegally killed for their tusks. A decade-long resurgence in demand for elephant ivory, particularly in parts of Asia, has fueled this rampant poaching epidemic.

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How poaching is changing the face of African elephants

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Heartbreaking Truth About Elephant Poaching | This Wild Life | BBC Earth

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Elephant saved from ivory poachers in Kenya

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How I Went From Poaching Elephants and Rhinos to Protecting Them | Bad Blood

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Animals cannot speak, but can you and I not speak for them and represent them?

Let us feel their silent cry of agony and let us help that cry to be heard in the world.

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We are the first generation to have a clear picture of the value of nature and our impact on it.

We may be the last that can take action to reverse the trend.

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Wildlife Crime I Our Cause I Wildlife Justice Commission

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Our planet's wildlife is being decimated. That is why the Wildlife Justice Commission is fighting transnational organised wildlife crime.

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Cute Tiger Cubs Playing | Dynasties | BBC Earth

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Baby Rhino Being Silly and Playing in Mud Compilation

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Red Pandas Are Like Puppies #cute #redpanda

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Deer Brings Her Babies To Meet Her Dog Best Friend Every Spring! | The Dodo Odd Couples

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