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Boxing Day Hunts still attract crowds & violence.
Boxing Day Hunts still attract the crowds, demonstrators and violence, but why? Sixteen years after hunting was banned the unnecessary Boxing Day Hunts gather and take place on the pretext of preserving rural tradition and these attract the inevitable controversy and conflict which has accompanied them since the Hunting Act 2004 was introduced. The Act was…
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No paradise for the Gili Island ponies
The mass expansion of tourism on the motorless Gili Islands, Lombok is giving local ponies a hard time. Recently I spent a few days on the Gili islands during a lengthy trip visiting Lombok island and it was fascinating to see the ponies and brightly coloured carts locally known as the “Cidomo”. They are literally the workhorses…