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The Hunting Act 2004 (c. 37) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which bans the hunting of most wild mammals (notably foxes, deer, hares and mink) with dogs in England and Wales, subject to some strictly limited exemptions; the Act does not cover the use of dogs in the process of flushing out an unidentified wild mammal, [4] nor does it affect drag hunting, where hounds are ...
In 2001 there was a 1-year nationwide ban on fox-hunting because of an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. It was found this ban on hunting had no measurable impact on fox numbers in randomly selected areas. [117] Prior to the fox hunting ban in the UK, hounds contributed to the deaths of 6.3% of the 400,000 foxes killed annually. [118]
Fox hunting is prohibited in Great Britain by the Protection of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Act 2002 and the Hunting Act 2004 (England and Wales), but remains legal in Northern Ireland. [1] [2] Since the inception of the ban, most registered hunts in Great Britain have switched to trail hunting as a legal alternative. [3] [4]
The continuation of the current law regarding fox hunting in England and Wales has been guaranteed by the Scottish National Party. [14] The law regarding fox hunting in Scotland was made stricter in 2023, following the passage and commencement of the Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Act 2023, which repealed and replaced the 2002 Act. [15] [16]
Fox hunting was banned in England and Wales following the introduction of the Hunting Act 2004, which came into force a year later. But drag hunting, where hounds are trained to follow an ...
In the United Kingdom, the term hunting generally refers to hunting with hounds, e.g. normally fox hunting, stag (deer) hunting, beagling, or minkhunting, whereas shooting is the shooting of game birds. What is called deer hunting elsewhere is deer stalking.
The act banned the use of dogs to hunt wild mammals - including foxes, hares, deer and mink - across England and Wales. Traditional hunts have now been replaced with trail hunting, which involves ...
The hunt country covers a 760 square miles (2,000 km 2) area of land between Cirencester and Bath to the north and south and between Malmesbury and Nailsworth to the east and west, although only 500 square miles (1,300 km 2) of land was usable by 2013. The hunt goes out on four days of the week during the hunting season, which continues for ...