Urgent Action

Woburn Safari Park, Nov 2018

Woburn Safari Park is offering wealthy international hunters the opportunity to hunt wildlife in the park. A range of killing packages are available. A ‘Grade A’ Red Deer stag can be shot for £9,000, and a Pere David deer for £6,995. Simultaneously Woburn markets itself to visitors as a ‘sanctuary’ for endangered wildlife and a centre of conservation. More details here.

Please contact Woburn via the email below: info@woburnsafari.co.uk

Let them know what you think. Draft letter below, feel free to cut/paste and edit.

Dear Woburn Park.

I understand that in collaboration with travel companies you are offering individuals the ‘opportunity’ to ‘trophy hunt’ at Woburn Park. 

International hunters are paying very large sums to enjoy blood sports on your land. At the same time visitors are given the impression that the park is a sanctuary for wildlife. The majority of people are sickened and shocked to learn that you are hosting trophy hunts.

I will not be visiting Wobrun while this situation continues. I will also be encouraging my family and colleagues to boycott you.

I hope you will urgently reconsider this decision.

Yours.

 

Many thanks.

Dorset Sabs

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National Trust, Nov 2018

The National Trust have just issued the Dartmoor Hunt with a licence to kill foxes on their land with 87 dates! See:

We all know that ‘trail hunting’ is simply an alibi for real hunting, and the horrific abuse of vulnerable wildlife. 

Please take action now! Email the Trust’s Director-General (Hilary McGrady) at hilary.mcgrady@nationaltrust.org.uk and ask her to cancel this licence. Draft letter below, feel free to cut, paste and edit.

Please add national dis-trusts email to the CC or BCC line:  nationaldis-trust@riseup.net.

Dear Ms McGrady

The National Trust has issued the Dartmoor Hunt with a license to hunt on Trust land with a total of 87 dates scheduled.

Hunts allow unsupervised hounds to range overland for long distances, supported by men on quad bikes with terriers and digging equipment; innumerable hunt supporters, and the mounted field.

No risk assessment is carried out, and the general public are left vulnerable on Trust land, along with livestock and wildlife.

Hunts claim to be ‘trail hunting’ within the law, but the presence of terrier men on quad bikes gives the lie to this claim, as does the behaviour of hunts towards anyone with the temerity to film them.

It is beyond disingenuous to take these claims from hunts at face value. Trail hunting is clearly an alibi for outright law breaking, and the Trust is complicit in this criminality when it licences hunts and allows them unmonitored access to its land.

I hope you will urgently reconsider this decision.