Helping tackle the War On Wildlife
It’s been (with the emphasis on ‘extreme’) an ‘extremely’ bad week for fox hunting. It’s been a bad week for foxes too of course, but fox hunting seems determined to rip itself apart. Shoot itself in the foot. Dump its own corpse in the headlines, writes Charlie Moores…
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Here’s a fun Christmas/ Boxing Day game to play. Are fox hunters psychopaths? We’re asking of course, writes Charlie Moores, because of the recent horrific photo taken of a fox being ripped to bits by the Barlow Hunt which was out ‘following a scent trail’ near Matlock in Derbyshire.
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Boris Johnson launched the Conservatives’ general election Manifesto over the weekend. The focus was on spending plans and Brexit, but one line has seen significant comment from pro-wildlife campaigners. At the bottom of page 43 was the short statement: “We will make no changes to the Hunting Act”. What, asks Charlie Moores, would that mean in reality?
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Lots of the general public believe that hunting no longer goes on since the ban in 2005 and are both surprised and disgusted in equal measures when they find out the reality of the situation. These are the people we get to speak to when we’re in a Lush store.
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In drone footage taken by Harry Blackhurst, of the Kent Hunt Saboteurs, hounds from the East Sussex and Romney Marsh Hunt are seen tearing the head off a fox. It took three minutes. Three minutes while it was pulled apart. Three minutes, writes Charlie Moores, of extreme suffering and pain.
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‘Trail hunting’ was invented by hunts in response to the passing of the Hunting Act 2004 which outlawed the hunting of wild animals with dogs and is widely understood to be little more than a stop-gap allowing hunts to maintain their packs while they work for the repeal of the Act. ‘Trail hunting’ looks and sounds very much like a ‘traditional’ fox hunt. Why, asks Charlie Moores, does it matter that the National Trust supports it?
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