Hunting

Director of the Masters of Foxhounds Association tells private webinar that 'plausible' trail hunting can be used as 'smokescreen' for illegal hunt, court hears.

United Utilities suspends trail hunting on its land.

Wild Justice granted permission to apply for Judicial Review into impact of release of more than 50 million gamebirds.

Trophy hunting is a multi-million dollar global industry. There needs to be concerted international action to ban with this archaic and cruel bloodsport.

Botswana government won’t let the truth get in the way of its trophy hunting narrative.

The UK government needs a pragmatic and ambitious approach to stamping out the illegal wildlife trade post-Brexit.

The evidence suggests that ethical, economic and ecological problems with trophy hunting warrant a trophy import ban. 

Somerset huntsman to appear in court following the alleged illegal persecution of wildlife.

Beavers reintroduced to Britain 400 years after being hunted to extinction will help fight climate impacts.

Labour sets out £4.5m funding boost to fight hare coursing, fox hunting and other wildlife crimes in support of ambitious animal welfare manifesto

The management of driven grouse moors is killing Scotland’s wildlife and, in some cases, illegally persecuting our protected species.

Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting reveals that Britain is one of a ‘Deadly Dozen’ top nations killing the most lions on South Africa’s ‘canned hunting’ estates.

Six members of the Meynell and South Staffordshire Hunt will appear at Nottingham Magistrates Court, accused of hunting fox cubs.

Talking with hunters in the mountains of Arunachal Pradesh.

Pangolins in north-eastern India are being brutally killed for their body parts.

UK politicians support urgent ban on importing hunting trophies.

Research loophole has allowed apparently 'illegal' stag hunting to continue in Devon & Somerset.

Celebrities speak out after Botswana lifts ban on elephant hunting.

The Welsh Government will no longer lease public land for pheasant shooting, following a long and public campaign by the League Against Cruel Sports and Animal Aid. MARIANNE BROOKER reports

There is a painful truth about disease in the UK countryside. These diseases among farm animals cause death and financial loss on a huge scale. Chris Pitt, deputy director of policy, communications and campaigns at the League Against Cruel Sports, explains.

Darryl Cunnington, a former policeman and investigator for the charity League Against Cruel Sport, suffered a broken neck when attacked by men apparently engaged in preparing for illegal fox hunting. The attackers have been spared prison, reports BRENDAN MONTAGUE

ROGER SWAINE is the most recent recruit to the League Against Cruel Sports team of wildlife crime investigators and started in 2015. Just a year later he was attacked and his colleague left with a fractured neck. Roger explains here why he will continue to investigate illegal hunting

The impact of human behaviour on the environment is well documented but now it seems man has become an evolutionary force in the lives of female Scandinavian brown bears as they change parenting tactics to ward off hunters. CATHERINE HARTE reports