![]() ![]() “Advocates of the 2004 ban on hunting would not have expected their efforts to protect foxes to result in this catastrophic decline,” the letter added. This was because landowners have resorted to shooting foxes to control the population, killing some of the fittest animals and vixens with cubs, which is “contrary to good conservation practice”, the vets said. More than 100 vets have written to ministers warning that “despite decades of intense debate”, there is no research that backs up the arguments on the most “humane way to control fox numbers”.Ī scientific review was needed, they said, as numbers have plummeted since the 2004 ban and red foxes were approaching extinction in some rural areas. Fox populations have plummeted in the wake of the 2004 Hunting Act, vets have warned as they called for the Government to launch a scientific review into population control. ![]()
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