According to the League Against Cruel Sports, lawmakers voted yesterday to permanently ban fox hunting on the land of Western Cheshire and Chester Council, which is an “remarkable result” for animal welfare.
Earlier, after a meeting called for consultations on the threats hunting poses to animals and the environment and the submission of a cross-party report, all hunting activities were suspended on the committee’s land.
The report has now identified the risks of hunting to wild animals and domestic animals, and recommended prohibiting parliament-owned land and working to ban farmland leased from parliament.
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Nick Weston, the campaign leader of the League Against Cruel Sports, said: “This is an amazing result, and I want to thank the councillors for putting a lot of effort into preventing the use of the land of Cheshire West and Chester City Council for fox hunting activities.
“Consultation and reports show how’trail’ hunting can be used as a smoke screen by hunting to hide hunting and killing of animals.
“We welcome the Cabinet’s decision. They decided to take action to prevent the cruel fox hunting’movement’ from happening on parliamentary land.”
The Alliance has compiled at least 21 reports of suspected illegal hunting activities in the Western Cheshire and Chester local authority areas during the 2019/20 hunting season, including “autumn hunting” or cub hunting seasons.
These reports include multiple obstructions by badgers, seeing foxes chased and fleeing by hounds, and livestock including horses and pregnant ewes are worrying.
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The board vote was conducted in the context of Mark Hankinson’s conviction. Mark Hankinson is now the former director of the disgraced Foxhound Association. He was recently convicted of encouraging or assisting others to violate the 2004 Serious Crimes Act. The crime of hunting law.
He was caught telling the hunting master how to use the so-called “travel” hunting as an excuse to kill animals.
During the trial, Judge Tan Ikram, Deputy Chief Magistrate of England and Wales, described the hunting as “false” and “fiction”.
The parliamentary vote also took place a few weeks after the National Trust, Welsh Natural Resources and the Malvern Hill Trust had all permanently terminated the “trail” hunting on their land.
Elsewhere in the UK, two other councils-Peterborough City Council and Nottinghamshire County Council-voted in 2020 and 2019 respectively to ban hunting on their land.
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Ruby Harbour is the editorial assistant Ecologist. This article is based on a press release from The League against Cruel Sports.
