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31 December, 2010 : 08:32
The general election and subsequent change of government must count as one of the most significant events of the year, and during the election period, we took our six foot fox to various constituencie...
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on
31 December, 2010 : 07:11
What I would like to say to you all is ‘Happy New Year’, but I fear that happiness is going to be in rather short supply next year. Times are very clearly going to be tough not just for the League but...
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on
31 December, 2010 : 00:01
In our final video blog of 2010, Christina reviews the League's latest polling and media coverage of the traditional Boxing Day hunt. Her colleagues from the Campaigns Team also introduce some of our ...
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on
30 December, 2010 : 08:55
In February, the League underwent a major rebranding exercise and as part of the launch of our new website, we published the 'Celebrity Shock' film, to highlight the horrific nature of hunting with ho...
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on
29 December, 2010 : 06:44
On the 'Glorious' Twelfth of August, we published a new film showing just how cruel the shooting industry really is. It explodes the myth of birds being killed and falling to the ground dead, and star...
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on
28 December, 2010 : 09:02
Earlier in the year, the League launched its new Fighting Dogs campaign, highlighting the increasing problem of dog fighting, badger and fox baiting, and terrierwork. We were delighted to receive the ...
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on
27 December, 2010 : 07:11
Over the next few days we'll be posting some of our favourite and the most significant film clips added to our YouTube channel this year. This follows Friday's video blog which reflected on the year p...
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on
25 December, 2010 : 15:00
The theme of the Queen’s speech today has centred on the role of sport in national life. The Queen has praised individuals across the country for giving up their time, often in a voluntary capacity to...
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25 December, 2010 : 13:18
It seems the Welsh Assembly has made another gaffe when trying to justify their proposed badger cull.
Over 26,000 homes in the proposed cull area were sent an information leaflet in October 2010 whi...
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on
24 December, 2010 : 12:37
This morning listeners to Radio 4’s Today programme had the pleasure of hearing an address from his Holiness Pope Benedict XVI during the show’s much anticipated ‘Thought for the Day’ segment. Althoug...
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on
24 December, 2010 : 11:52
As I write this I am very conscious of the approaching Christmas and Boxing Day holidays. This should be a time of goodwill to all and a celebration of humanity in all its diverse forms and beliefs. Y...
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on
24 December, 2010 : 00:01
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on
23 December, 2010 : 12:37
Yep dreadful pun and I’m still unsure about that apostrophe, but you might find the following of interest. In 2008 the League was prominent amongst objectors to the re-introduction of shooting on Ilkl...
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on
22 December, 2010 : 21:33
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21 December, 2010 : 11:33
The latest issue of our membership magazine, Wildlife Guardian, is avialable for download.
The Winter 2010 edition focuses on the demonisation of wild animals, taking a look at the reporting of the...
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on
21 December, 2010 : 09:22
A beautiful photograph of red deer in the snow on our Baronsdown Sanctuary in Somerset.
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on
20 December, 2010 : 16:00
In a sparesly populated and far flung corner of the World Wide Web intrepid surfers can discover the delights of one of the hunting community’s more eccentric publications, ‘The Master's Voice’ (or in...
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on
20 December, 2010 : 10:09
Looking back on 2010, it’s clear that we’ve had an extremely successful year. I would like to extend my sincerest thanks to everyone who has lobbied their MP this year and urged them to support our c...
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on
17 December, 2010 : 15:00
As we come to the end of the year, I have been thinking back to what an incredible year it has been at the League and in the campaign to retain the Hunting Act. The beginning of the year saw us going ...
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on
17 December, 2010 : 11:13
The way that the hunters behave when their cases come to court would be amusing were it not so arrogant. They gather together as a group to support the accused, they talk loudly in the court corridors...
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17 December, 2010 : 00:01
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16 December, 2010 : 11:00
The town of Camarles in Catalonia, Spain, has banned this year’s Fire Bull fiesta – just two days before it was scheduled to take place. During the Fire Bull ritual, a metal device is fixed onto the b...
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on
15 December, 2010 : 15:00
Perhaps now would be as good a time as any to remind readers of this blog about something that happened prior to the hunting ban and which still has a bearing on the work of the League in 2010.
Man...
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on
10 December, 2010 : 16:35
A few weeks ago, when explaining what I do for a living, I unexpectedly found myself on the receiving end of a tirade of abuse. Why was this unexpected, I hear you ask? Because we were talking about b...
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on
10 December, 2010 : 12:00
There is something quite magical about snowy landscapes, that is at least until you start to think about the reality of life out there in the cold and wet.
For the nation’s wildlife these are testing...
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on
10 December, 2010 : 00:01
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on
09 December, 2010 : 15:20
It’s always an event in the office when Alice Barnard, the new Chief Executive of the Countryside Alliance writes to her supporters and today has been no exception. The latest musings from La Chief pr...
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08 December, 2010 : 15:50
Over the past couple of weeks we have had some truly shocking calls about people who have had enough of their local shoot.
One supporter’s story in particular really sticks in my mind.
A tenant far...
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on
07 December, 2010 : 14:00
In February 1985, twenty years before the Hunting Act became law, the Smiths released their seminal album Meat is Murder. For many people growing up in the United Kingdom of the time this masterpiece ...
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on
03 December, 2010 : 11:02
One of the things that doesn’t appear to have occurred to the more manic hunters is that in the snow people, foxes, hounds and horses all leave very distinct trails. While it may be possible to hunt o...
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03 December, 2010 : 11:00
Come along this Sunday to this year’s Christmas Fayre at KENSINGTON TOWN HALL, from 10am – 5pm.
Animal Aid’s hugely popular Fayre is a perfect place to buy all your cruelty-free and ethically produc...
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on
03 December, 2010 : 00:01
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on
02 December, 2010 : 17:00
Members of the Scottish Parliament today debated Stage 1 of the Wildlife and Natural Environment (Scotland) Bill with snaring and wildlife crime dominating much of the proceedings. It was widely agree...
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02 December, 2010 : 12:45
….in a fair fight’. Well that’s the story we’re told about on professional trophy hunters in next months GQ magazine anyway.
The article which appears in January’s edition explores the world of the p...
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on
02 December, 2010 : 10:00
Web chatter has thrown up an interesting story from Italy. According to both anti and pro hunting forums the Italian military has managed to pull down the shutters on one of Italy’s most historic and ...
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Katy on
01 December, 2010 : 10:00
Whilst glancing at our face book page I can’t help but notice the ‘game is free range’ argument cropping up again. The clever marketing ploys of the game industry still sadly work for those ‘wishing’...
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on
27 November, 2010 : 16:00
The League is disappointed to learn that, from 2011, Benidorm will once again be hosting bullfights. Due to a protracted legal dispute between the bullring’s previous owner (Francisco Romero Leal) and...
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on
27 November, 2010 : 09:20
Our Mid Devon Support Group will be holding a stall at the Cruelty Free Christmas Fayre at the Corn Exchange on Market Street in Exeter tomorrow. It's open from 10am to 4.30pm and entry is free.
Fo...
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on
26 November, 2010 : 10:44
It has been an interesting week in a media sense. Trophy hunting and the commercial exploitation of wildlife have been recurring themes. Tigers under threat of extinction from both trophy hunters and ...
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on
26 November, 2010 : 00:01
The League's chairman, John Cooper QC, is interviewed for this week's video blog. He gives his views on the Hunting Act, the League's history and future, and the conviction earlier this week of Ri...
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on
24 November, 2010 : 13:00
Today’s Western Morning News features an all too familiar story of hunt havoc allegedly involving a member hunt of the Masters of Foxhounds Association (MFHA). According to the paper, farmer Stephen O...
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on
24 November, 2010 : 09:23
It's almost forty-eight hours since Richard Down, Huntsman of the Quantock Staghounds, earned his second conviction for a Hunting Act offence, and there has still been a public silence from the head o...
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Katy on
24 November, 2010 : 09:00
Like it or loathe it, the pheasant shooting season is now in full swing. Between 40 and 50 million of our feathered pheasant friends are being released to meet their dismal fate. The intensive rear...
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on
23 November, 2010 : 13:30
Before the Barbour clad apologists for chasing a deer with hounds until it is exhausted start to spin the latest court disaster into a tale of a misunderstood countryman, let’s have a closer look at y...
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on
22 November, 2010 : 20:00
There can be absolutely no doubt in anyone's mind now that the Hunting Act most definitely works. Today a man has been convicted for the second time for hunting illegally. This is the first time someo...
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on
22 November, 2010 : 12:15
Watching Countryfile on BBC One last night it was depressing to see yet another dismal attempt at justifying trophy hunting. The familiar and narrow minded argument in question came from a stalker who...
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on
19 November, 2010 : 10:14
The case of the death of the Exmoor Emperor opened a whole range of questions.
From a strictly legal perspective, if the landowner owned the sporting rights and the person who shot the Emperor had hi...
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on
19 November, 2010 : 00:01
A look through our archives, a meeting in parliament with Lord Donoughue, and a call to action over a photograph of a young girl trophy hunting, all feature in this week's video blog, introduced by Ka...
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on
17 November, 2010 : 13:50
Sometimes it is interesting to revisit a story in the aftermath of publication to gauge the level of traction upon the public conscience. No better recent example that I can think of involves the shoc...
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on
16 November, 2010 : 14:00
Last month, the Mayor of the French municipality of Fréjus announced that the city will no longer host bullfights. The decision was taken following considerable work from our partner organisations inc...