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Protect the Wild, a campaign group that opposes hunting, is calling for an immediate end to the breeding of foxhounds. It refers to the animals as the “forgotten victims” of hunting.  To reinforce its demands to end foxhound breeding and to ban the historic rural practice of hunting entirely, the organisation quoted a series of…

The San Antonio-based hunting advocacy group Safari Club International (SFI) has launched Sporting Conservation International (SCI) in a bid to unite hunting and conservation communities and groups.  SFI says SCI is intended to be a progressive parent corporation that will “protect and advance the conservation of wildlife and wild places by unifying conservation’s most active…

As the start of the hunting season approaches, groups Action Against Foxhunting (AAF) and Protect The Wild (PTW) have launched new campaigns hoping to force Labour to ban trail-hunting.  On 11 October, AAF released a 90-page report entitled Broken Law – How the Hunting Act has Failed, which gives 23 recommendations on how the Hunting…

The pressure group Hunting Kind has been advised by a leading human rights lawyer that hunts have a case to seek “protected status”. The group has been advised that hunts may qualify as an “ethnic group” and could hold “protected beliefs”, the same status held by gypsies and the LGBTQ+ community.  Ed Swales, founder and…

Hunting was not mentioned in the King’s Speech on 17 July, but Countryside Alliance chairman Lord Herbert of South Downs warned “we are not out of the woods”.  The King’s Speech at the State Opening of Parliament set out the new Labour Government’s priorities for the months ahead, following the general election. Despite Labour’s manifesto…

Two men have been sentenced for using dogs to illegally hunt deer and hares.  Derbyshire Police arrested Raphael Stone and Dominic Parker after they were spotted with two dogs off leads in fields in Morley in April. The pair pleaded guilty to hunting a wild mammal with dogs, and trespass with intent to search for…

Police have arrested two men over alleged breaches of Scotland’s new foxhunting legislation. The arrests followed video surveillance and complaints submitted by anti-hunt groups in the Scottish Borders. Officers have investigated six reports of illegal foxhunting since the new law was introduced last October.  Police Scotland confirmed that two men, aged 29 and 55, were…

The Labour Party have been accused of pursuing a toxic culture war in the countryside after it announced plans to “eliminate” hunting within its first term of Parliament. The party pledges to implement a “full ban on trail- and draghunting” within its first five years in power, claiming there is not a majority in “any…

A hunt saboteur branded “a danger to the public” has been given an ASBO-style ban in what is believed to be the first case of its kind.  Paul Allman, described as “the face of UK hunt saboteurs”, has been made subject to a five-year Criminal Behaviour Order aimed at restricting his sabbing activities, including a…

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