You’ve helped create this pivotal moment.
Following more than 20 years of active campaigning by supporters, we now find ourselves at a crossroads. The government’s ongoing consultation to end trail hunting represents a pivotal moment in animal welfare and a golden opportunity to finally end this cruel blood sport.
What is trail hunting?
Trail hunting is used by fox hunts as an excuse to fool the public into thinking dogs are following an artificial fox scent. In fact, many hunts are still barbarically chasing and tearing apart foxes with hounds as they did before the 2004 hunting ban. For many unfortunate foxes, nothing has changed.
Your support is vital in helping to end fox hunting in England and Wales.
By personally taking part in the consultation – and asking friends and family to do so as well - your voice can play an important role in consigning fox hunting to the history books.
Not sure what to say? Don’t worry, the League has created an advice page for you which will help you draft your own personal submission. Or use our easy-to-use tool to submit a simple pre-written response.
Animals need more than just a ban
While it’s vital for the government to ban trail hunting, animals need more.
- - Loopholes and exemptions in the Hunting Act used by the hunts to carry on killing deer and other wildlife need to be removed.
- - Measures need to be taken to prevent hunts from acting recklessly - and then claiming their kills were accidental.
- - Judges need the option of jail sentences, rather than just paltry fines, to deter would be hunters
Your support has been vital in helping to get this far in the battle to end fox hunting. Now is the time to act to help achieve our shared vision of an end to this cruel ‘sport’. Aside from participating in the consultation yourself, a gift today will help get as many people as possible to respond drive the message home: no more fox hunting in our countryside.
With your help, a ban in England may be next
Thanks to donors’ generous support, ‘Reaching the Finish Line; Time to end dog racing in the UK’, a joint report between the League and GREY2K USA Worldwide, was recently launched in parliament.
The report highlights the need for the UK Government to ban the inherently dangerous sport of greyhound racing in England, following the landmark decisions made recently by both the Welsh and Scottish parliaments to end greyhound racing in Wales and Scotland.
The report exposes the extensive suffering faced by greyhounds and the huge number of deaths and injuries inflicted on the animals during racing. Figures released annually by the industry’s governing body, the Greyhound Board of Great Britain, show that in England and Wales 1,357 greyhounds have died at the trackside from racing between 2017 and 2024, and an astounding 35,168 have sustained injuries.
It’s time for this inherently dangerous and cruel ‘sport’ to end. And thanks to the commitment and generosity of our supporters we are getting closer to complete ban across the UK.
