Footage Shows Hunt Blocking Badger Setts To Stop Foxes Escape

HSA is today releasing covert footage captured of members of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn’s Hunt (aka the Wynnstay Hunt) blocking active badger setts ahead of a hunting day.
The footage clearly shows masked men, believed by the HSA to be the terrierman and kennel huntsman employed by the hunt, carrying out the traditional fox hunting practice of ‘earth stopping’ on a number of occasions.
This takes place ahead of a hunt to block up badger sett entrances, and holes used by fox and even rabbit, to stop a fleeing fox from taking refuge in them in order for a longer, more preferable chase during the hunt.
Badger setts have been protected since 1992 under current law, and since the 2004 Hunting Act there has been no legal exemption for hunts to block setts. Yet every season we see this happening.
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