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Trail hunting in Dartmoor. Trail hunting is a legal, although controversial, [1] alternative to hunting animals with hounds in Great Britain. A trail of animal urine (most commonly fox) is laid in advance of the 'hunt', and then tracked by the hound pack and a group of followers; on foot, horseback, or both.
The Government-sponsored body said it no longer had confidence that trail hunts were not being used as a cover for illegal fox hunting. Natural Resources Wales bans trail hunting on its land Skip ...
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]
Labour, which introduced the original ban on hunting with dogs in 2004, pledged in its manifesto this year to ban trail hunting, as part of what it says are measures to “improve animal welfare”.
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]
It comes after a senior huntsman was convicted of encouraging others to use the practice as a cover for chasing live animals.
The League for the Prohibition of Cruel Sports was founded in 1925 by Ernest Bell and Henry B. Amos with George Greenwood as first president. [1] [2] [7] [a] Their inaugural public meeting was held on 25 November 1925 at Church House, Westminster and was chaired by Greenwood, a council member of the RSPCA.
The Protection of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Act was an Act of the Scottish Parliament passed in February 2002, making Scotland the first part of the United Kingdom to ban traditional fox hunting and hare coursing. It was repealed in 2023.