Guardian – London – Could 2024 be the year nature rights enter the political mainstream?
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Category: Hunting
Our recent post – UK: 26/12 – Boxing Day Hunting – No Good As Always ! – World Animals Voice
Read the full Mail article (with many photos) here:
You have to remember that this is the Daily Mail – a Conservative newspaper.
Note that time and time again they tell us
With traditional fox hunting banned, enthusiasts now take part in trail hunts, where packs of hounds follow an artificial scent – but animal rights campaigners claim this serves as a ‘cover’ for killing foxes.
Exactly – a cover:
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Today, December 26th, is the day every year when UK hunts attempt to display themselves to the British public to try and gather support for their bloodlusts of ripping British wildlife to shreds.
Below – A hunter attacks a female sab monitor during a hunt:
Take a look at some of our past posts relating to this:
Search Results for “boxing day hunt” – World Animals Voice
The end result of a hunt – photo Mark via East Kent Sabs.
Or also view this article in the London Metro relating to an incident involving the Warwickshire hunt, which includes hunt video footage:
Warwickshire: Hunting dogs kill and tear fox to shreds | UK News | Metro News
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Animal rights groups said a sickening video showing a huntsman throwing a live fox to baying hounds was more evidence that legal trail hunting was being used as “a smokescreen” for illegal hunting with dogs.
Oliver Francis Thompson, 32, of Old Berkshire Hunt Kennels in Farringdon, swerved jail after admitting two animal welfare offences, one of which involved encouraging his dog to terrorise a captive fox.
In footage recorded in July 2020 that Thompson shared with his friends, he is shown with a young fox in a trap, with his Patterdale terrier Nellie being encouraged to bark and menace the animal at very close quarters.
Later, the fox is taken out of the trap by Thompson and, held by the scruff of his neck, is repeatedly thrust at the barking dog 19 times.
In a second incident filmed on Christmas Eve in December that year, Thompson, in a hunting jacket, digs a fox out of its earth, surrounded by people also wearing hunting jackets, terriermen and a child.
Continue reading with video and pictures at:
Animal charities react to sentencing of Oxfordshire huntsman | Oxford Mail
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East Kent Murder – Picture Mark
Search Results for “boxing day hunt” – World Animals Voice
Every Boxing Day, hunting horns sound across the UK, as the hunts come out in force to celebrate the cruel ‘sport’ of fox hunting.
In reality, the pomp and pageantry are just a mask for the cold cruelty of their entertainment – illegally hunting innocent, defenceless animals to exhaustion.
The countdown to cruelty has began. Will you stand up for the foxes?
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Hunt Sab Attack
My ‘Golda’ in the snow. Real fur in the right place !
A joint team of UK and South African researchers carried out a survey on public opinion toward trophy hunting. The survey involved 1,000 people from countries that most frequently visit South Africa, both from within the African continent and overseas. It indicated universally strong opposition to the killing of South Africa’s lions for sport and revealed a desire to finance the protection of the nation’s iconic wildlife through paying a ‘lion protection fee.’
The key findings of the research revealed that 84.2% of those surveyed stated that being asked to pay an inbound tourist ‘lion protection fee’ was a ‘good’ or ‘great’ idea. The highest support was from overseas with the UK, U.S., and many European Countries in favor at 92.3%. Those who live in Mozambique were in favour at 88.9%.
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Cool Cat !
ANIMAL rights campaigners welcomed a total ban on snares and glue traps in Wales, which came into force yesterday.
Rural Affairs Minister Lesley Griffiths called it a “historic day” for animal welfare and said she is proud Wales is the first of the UK nations to introduce the move.
RSPCA Cymru’s Billie-Jade Thomas said: “We very much welcome the ban on snares and glue traps coming into force today.
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Animal group demands hunter Logan Bogie face animal cruelty charge over shooting Vermont deer and posing for pics while it was still alive
- Logan Bogie shot and maimed the deer with a crossbow last fall
- He left the deer in agony for more than an hour before posing up for sick photos and video, animal-rights groups say
- Bogie faces 18 other wildlife crimes charges for poaching with a suspended hunting license; his relatives also face charges
Read the full story and see video footage at:
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A new Spanish law strengthens animal rights but exempts bullfights and hunting with dogs
MADRID (AP) — A new animal welfare law that took effect Friday in Spain outlaws the use of animals for recreational activities that cause them pain and suffering but allows bullfights and hunting with dogs.
Spain’s first specific animal rights legislation is intended to crack down on abuses. The law particularly targets the mistreatment of domestic animals, introducing fines of up to 200,000 euros ($212,000).
It bans the buying of pets in stores or online, but gives stores a grace period to find homes for their animals. In the future, it only will be legal to purchase pets from registered breeders. The new rules allow pets into most establishments, including restaurants and bars.
The law bans the use of wild animals at circuses and gives owners six months to comply. It allows zoos to keep using the marine mammals in their dolphin shows until the animals die.
Bullfights are regarded as part of Spain’s cultural heritage. A proposal to include hunting dogs in the law prompted an outcry in some rural communities, and the government backed down.
Government statistics estimate some 29 million animals are kept as pets in Spain, most of them dogs. But around 300,000 are abandoned each year, and about one-third of those are put down.
The law also aims to introduce mandatory pet insurance and registration as well as training for owners. However, those requirements and some other legal aspects were delayed because detailed administrative procedures have not been drawn up in the absence of a sitting government.
Spain’s July general election proved inconclusive, and political parties are in coalition-building talks.
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A new Spanish law strengthens animal rights but exempts bullfights and hunting with dogs (yahoo.com)
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Spain Strengthens Animal Rights, But Exempts Bullfights (yahoo.com)
New Spanish law strengthens animal rights but exempts bullfights – ABC News (go.com)
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