Support charity’s National Trust campaign
The League Against Cruel Sports is Britain’s leading wildlife charity, campaigning to end cruelty to
animals in the name of ‘sport’.
It has recently launched a campaign to end the licensing of ‘trail’ hunting on National Trust land. ‘Trail’ hunting, in which hunts are supposed to follow pre-laid scents rather than real foxes, has been shown to be a cover for illegal hunting.
It has been outlawed since 2005, but in the last hunting season alone, which ran from October to the
start of social-distancing in mid-March, the League received 485 report relating to suspected illegal hunting.
Chris Luffingham, campaigns director at the League, said: “If trail hunting is real, then why does the League receive so many reports of foxes being chased and killed, livestock being worried, hounds running loose on roads and railway lines, and even domestic animals being killed by hunts?
“The answer has to be that trail hunting is a cover for illegal hunting, that no trails are laid and the
hunts are making a mockery of the Hunting Act.”
A motion has been lodged by more than 200 National Trust members, with the hope that the issue
of hunt licensing will be debated at the trust’s annual meeting in October.
Sign up to support here: www.league.org.uk/nationaltrust