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Landowners scramble to suspend fox trail hunts
Good news for some foxes this winter. Following the news that the police have launched an investigation into the activity of the Hunting Office after it was alleged that hunt masters had held webinars on creating hunting “smokescreens” to cover illegal fox hunting, there has been a mad scramble by landowners to distance themselves from…
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Hare Coursing – barricading the English countryside
Farmers given free soil to barricade the countryside against hare coursers. Despite the ban on hunting of hares under the Hunting Act 2004, the “sport” of hare coursing is on the increase and in practical terms virtually impossible to stop. It takes huge resources to police and even when offenders are caught there is little…