Tag: trail hunting

The Independent | Boris Johnson said he ‘loved’ fox hunting

Posted on July 19, 2020July 20, 2020 by Charlie

The Independent newspaper has just run a story that – on the face of it perhaps – seems curiously timed. The article reproduces a much-quoted opinion piece that current UK prime-minister Boris Johnson published in right-leaning The Spectator magazine back in 2005, not long after the Hunting Act came into force. So why now? Is this a rather clever pre-emptive strike on fox hunting and its allegedly ‘sexually inadequate’ supporters…

Two charged after fox killed during New Year hunt in East Yorkshire

Posted on July 16, 2020July 16, 2020 by Charlie

It’s not that we’re deliberately looking for stories linking Yorkshire with wildlife crime, it’s more that they just keep turning up. When it’s not the region’s gamekeepers shooting or poisoning birds of prey, it seems that its so-called ‘trail hunting’ fox hunters can’t help breaking the law either. As a report in the Hull Daily Mail puts it rather prosaically, “Two men have been charged after allegedly allowing dogs to hunt a fox in East Yorkshire”.

LACS | The National Trust and Trail Hunting

Posted on June 13, 2020June 13, 2020 by Charlie

We’ve written many times about the National Trust (NT, one of the UK’s most important conservation charities) and its unfortunate affair with so-called ‘trail hunting’ (see a National Trust and Trail Hunting 101 for example). We’d rather not have to keep repeating ourselves, but so-called ‘trail hunting’ is a clear example of the war on wildlife, we exist to help tackle that war, and there is no good reason whatsoever for the NT to facilitate ‘trail hunting’ on its land. It’s not just us that thinks this of course: no-one outside of hunting thinks one of the country’s most respected charities should be allowing fox hunts to break the law on charity-owned land.

National Trust and protecting wildlife

Posted on May 20, 2020May 21, 2020 by Charlie

The Guardian newspaper has a piece today about how wildlife has repopulated closed National Trust properties (the Trust is one of the largest landowners in the country, and with over 5 million members potentially one of its most influential). It says that “The National Trust is reporting that emboldened wildlife, from raptors and warblers to badgers, otters and even orcas, appear to be enjoying the disappearance of humans from its gardens, castles and waterways across the UK“. Is this the same NT that facilitates illegal fox hunting on its land? Indeed it is…

Petition: Strengthen the Hunting Act

Posted on March 5, 2020 by Charlie

Craig Carney has started a petition to George Eustice MP (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Farming, Food and the Marine Environment) asking for the Hunting Act 2004 to be strengthened. Hundreds of hunts are still going out thousands of times, killing wildlife, disturbing local communities, and breaking traffic and wildlife legislation.

Beds and Bucks Hunt Sabs at Lush Milton Keynes

Posted on November 19, 2019November 19, 2019 by Charlie

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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