Our campaign against repeal was featured in The Daily Telegraph , the Daily Mail and in The Guardian on Boxing Day. The Guardian also included our campaign in a further article on hunting on the 27th December 2011. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2078611/Quarter-million-turn-watch-Boxing-Day-hunts-minister-calls-ban-end.html The Prime Minister is known to support the lifting of the ban and the Coalition agreement [...]

As hunts prepare to meet this Boxing Day, Conservatives Against Fox Hunting celebrate the fact that the ‘sport’ of hunting with dogs has been banned for six years. It is illegal to hunt wild mammals with dogs for sport. A spokesperson for Conservatives Against Fox Hunting said: “Next year, in 2012, Great Britain will host [...]

  ‘Yobs are driving across the Shropshire countryside to chase badgers and hares for their dogs to fight and kill, leaving a ‘terrible mess’ in their wake, farmers claimed today.’ this headline is from the Shropshire Star. The farmer, who did not wish to be named for fear of reprisals, said there had been about [...]

Our latest blog is by a guest writer involved in commercial farming. December 18th 2011. ‘I was lucky enough to be born into a family which viewed all animal life as important – not just human life. That didn’t make us vegetarian, but it did mean that we liked animals to be treated properly and with respect. And [...]

We are disappointed that the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has decided not to listen to scientific evidence, the majority of the public or the advice of external stakeholders and, instead, is to go ahead with badger cull trials (Report, 15 December). These proposals are providing false hope that badger culls will [...]