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A Brief History of the Hunting Ban

The Hunting Act 2004 was a landmark piece of legislation. Discover the background, how it came to pass and state of affairs now...
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Government Defends Wildlife Crime On Public Land

GOVERNMENT DEFENDS WILDLIFE CRIME IN PUBLICLY OWNED FORESTS Yesterday, the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs responded to a petition calling for an end to the licensing of so-called ‘trail hunts’ on the Public Forest Estate, which is owned & managed by the Forestry Commission on behalf of the public. The response is pretty…

Forestry Commission sign warning of a 2016 drag hunting event at North York Moors, where no actual drag hunt operates. Photo courtesy International Fund for Animal Welfare

Blog Comment:

Karen Hartley on Game Of Cat & Mouse Continues #TrailHuntLies

Trail hunting is the cover to hide behind,for actual hunting of wildlife. They know it. We know it. So why is the forrestry commission aiding and abet...

Game Of Cat & Mouse Continues #TrailHuntLies

HOUNDS OFF OPINION The National Trust has started issuing licences for foxhunt packs to carry out so-called trailhunting on their land. But this season the business-as-usual status quo has c...

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Gill Mitchell on Staghunting On The Quantock Hills 08.10.18

Will there be terrier men with dogs accompanying these hunts? If there will, the term ‘trail’ hunting is a smokescreen for hunting foxes. Terrier ...

Staghunting On The Quantock Hills 08.10.18

Scene from Quantock Stag Hounds carve up at Staple Farm, West Quantoxhead, Somerset, 8 October 2018.

There was a moment yesterday when I thought that the Quantock Stag Hounds had decided not to go hunting but alas it wasn’t so. In the end they killed a stag and took the body to a farm...

Wildlife protected by the Hunting Act

Discover which animals in the UK and Wales are protected by the Hunting Act 2004, which forbids the hunting of wild animals with dogs.
See also Badgers & Other Mammals >>

Foxes

Fox Hunting is illegal yet the Red Fox and their cubs are still hunted often in the UK...
Deer

Hunting any deer or stag with dogs is illegal in the UK...
Hares

Hare coursing where two dogs usually compete to pursue or flush out a live hair is illegal...
Mink

Hunting Mink with dogs is also illegal yet still continues...