Brown Hare Killing!! (1 Viewer)

[Upland Birder]

Killing of Brown Hare in UK!!

More evidence of the human mind-set and attitude towards the killing of mammals in the UK: Brown Hare!!!

http://www.independent.co.uk/enviro...d-march-hares-all-the-year-round-8523121.html

Dean:t:

 

[DaveN]

The link doesn't work for me.

edit: works fine now.

 

[John Cantelo]

The most disturbing thing about this issue is summed up by the quote below (my emphasis added):

...... last year the Scottish Government put an end to it north of the border, and there is now a closed season for brown hares in Scotland running from February 1 to September 30.

An increasing number of wildlife lovers think this should be replicated in England, and a campaign for a hare closed season is gathering force: last year, 146 MPs signed a House of Commons early day motion supporting it. Yet Richard Benyon, the wildlife minister who has a freely admitted passion for shooting, and owns a shooting estate in Berkshire and a grouse moor in Scotland, has set his face against it. Mr Benyon has refused to meet the campaigners, and handed over the job of drafting a code of practice for “hare management” to the British Association of Shooting and Conservation – the shooting lobby. The BASC draft code deals with the question of a formal, legal closed season by avoiding it entirely.

 

[chris butterworth]

Yet again this government shows it's utter contempt for the electorate and the democratic process plus its drive to blatantly treat anyone but their favoured few with disdain. I thought Blair and his sycophants corrupt but at least they didn't rub our faces in it.

Chris