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Fox hunt supporters ‘routinely’ blocking badger setts, leaving animals to suffocate or starve to death

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Fox hunt supporters ‘routinely’ blocking badger setts, leaving animals to suffocate or starve to death

Volunteers said they filmed, photographed or noted nearly 150 cases of setts being blocked in and around the Cotswolds in the 2017-18 hunting season, and have sent a dossier to police.

But they believe such illegal activity is commonplace across the British countryside.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/badger-setts-fox-hunting-countryside-monitors-cotswolds-hounds-a8499531.html

Hunt supporters are suspected of blocking setts to prevent foxes “going to ground” – escaping – while being chased by packs of hounds trained to target and savage them.

However, the 1992 Protection of Badgers Act made it an offence to kill a badger or damage, destroy, obstruct or disturb a badger’s home.

Observers say the alleged blocking of setts…

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