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With summer warming up the mink hunting season is warming up too. It is a newer, lesser-known form of hunting than the fox and hare hunts that have attracted huge controversy, but it is growing in ...

Hunting with hounds could still take place in the South West, even if fox and stag hunting is banned. A report put before the committee stage of the governments' Hunting Bill has concluded hounds may ...

The boots may be polished and put away, the jackets brushed and hung in the cupboards and the horses still round as barrels, but for hunters with a true passion for the chase the summer need not mean ...

The government’s announcement to consult on a trail hunting ban is welcome but stops short of protecting all species of wildlife that are still illegally chased and killed by hunts and their hounds.

A HUNT for the elusive American mink continues on Anglesey over fears about the predator’s impact on water voles and sea bird colonies. Two hundred mink rafts were placed on streams and rivers around ...

A HUNT for the elusive American mink continues on Anglesey over fears about the predator’s impact on water voles and sea bird colonies. A HUNT for the elusive American mink continues on Anglesey over ...