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
Today, 85 percent of the UK opposes hunting. Earlier this year Theresa May, the prime minister, backtracked on giving parliament a vote on overturning the fox hunting ban. Yet illegal hunting is still taking place. The animal welfare group League Against Cruel Sports now says the Hunting Act needs to be strengthened. CATHERINE HARTE reports
Brown hare numbers have been declining dramatically during the last century due in part to shooting and habitat decline. CHRIS LUFFINGHAM argues they still face threats from illegal hunting despite a ban more than ten years ago