Challenges for shooting in animal welfare shake-up

[Conor O'Gorman]

Defra’s Action Plan for Animal Welfare covers a range of topics with potential to impact on shooting/conservation including animal sentience, hares, 'trophy hunting', snares and electronic training collars.

A good overview of the issues is here:

Sentience, trophies and a government muddle over animals

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMDT0MhTP_I The government in England wants to bring in laws making it illegal to cause distress to various animals in a range of different circumstances. These are all covered by existing animal welfare laws, especially the Animal Welfare Act 2006. Nothing daunted, a...

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Improving standards of animal welfare in the UK is a positive move but it is worrying that the government is conflating animal rights with wildlife management and conservation in its action plan.

The Action Plan covers 'trophy hunting', BASC lobbied hard against last year’s proposal to ban all hunting trophies entering or leaving the UK and that work continues.

The proposal in the action plan is "to ban the import of hunting trophies from endangered animals abroad, by bringing forward legislation to ensure UK imports and exports of hunting trophies are not threatening the conservation status of species abroad."

The clear link between hunting and conservation has enraged some of the antis and the statements made in the following article will be used to good effect.

Trophy-hunt law overhaul ‘will cause even more wildlife killing’

Exclusive: Campaigners walk out of discussions with ministers, fearing black rhino and lions would be targeted under ‘blood money’ loophole

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Husky]

Connor, now that plants are considered sentient by scientists, will the BASC push for the same " rights " for plants as counter to the animal sentience in the above ?
And yes, I am being serious.

 

[enfieldspares]

I'm very very glad I voted for that true friend of shooting Mr Johnson and am very very pleased to see him in Downing Street with his very very lovely fiancee Carrie Symonds. And happy that he and her and his friend Lord "Zac" Goldsmith that he has appointed to the House of Lords have taken back control from an unelected dictatorship with people making policy who nobody voted for or elected.

Get Brexit done? It seems the next thing to get "done" by this trio will be shooting.

 

[shakey jake]

Connor, now that plants are considered sentient by scientists, will the BASC push for the same " rights " for plants as counter to the animal sentience in the above ?
And yes, I am being serious.

depends if the nfu back it first

 

[enfieldspares]

What with "Useless - I'm a sixth generation farmer - Eustice" in charge at DEFRA? He'll be playing his farming credentials card for all it's worth. Read what he's just said on the matter.

 

[kes]

Lately we are led by idiots and by idiot fiancees of idiots - it may not last for long since Ms Symonds is being scrutinised by quite a few MP's.

 

[John Gryphon]

Connor, now that plants are considered sentient by scientists, will the BASC push for the same " rights " for plants as counter to the animal sentience in the above ?
And yes, I am being serious.

This might have the Greens/vegans starve... how could you kill a lettuce or a mung bean ffs!

 

[Magnificent 7]

I want to know when there going to ban halal amd kosher here in the UK.

 

[Norfolk Deer Search]

I want to know when there going to ban halal amd kosher here in the UK.

They’ll ban shooting first!

 

[JH83]

I want to know when there going to ban halal amd kosher here in the UK.

I’d also like to know if-when talking about detrimental impacts of releasing non native species-there needs to be government intervention surrounding domestic cats. Never has a more damaging plight been imposed on Britain’s wildlife.

 

[JH83]

They’ll ban shooting first!

Not in a million years under the tories. Don’t get me wrong I, like all of us, feel a bit stabbed in the back but I am sure this is Boris trying to appease a significant part of the electorate who are ill informed on the topics-but still have a vote! The heart of the tories and his backers are pro shooting. In any event could you imagine what comrade Corbyn would of done to us by now?

 

[shakey jake]

I’d also like to know if-when talking about detrimental impacts of releasing non native species-there needs to be government intervention surrounding domestic cats. Never has a more damaging plight been imposed on Britain’s wildlife.

the people that first arrived hear have done the damage then they added cats

 

[JabaliHunter]

As long as CITES export certificates are issued where applicable, it should be easy to prove objectively that hunting and import of trophies is not threatening the conservation status of species abroad. If no CITES certificate is needed, then there is no threat to conservation status

 

[Frank Homes]

As long as CITES export certificates are issued where applicable, it should be easy to prove objectively that hunting and import of trophies is not threatening the conservation status of species abroad. If no CITES certificate is needed, then there is no threat to conservation status

What a sensible point of view and all that is needed. So why are the government even bothering with this nonsense....let me think I wonder if Bojo’s bit of fluff has anything to do with it?

 

[CarlW]

As long as CITES export certificates are issued where applicable, it should be easy to prove objectively that hunting and import of trophies is not threatening the conservation status of species abroad. If no CITES certificate is needed, then there is no threat to conservation status

One of our challenges is that CITES is interpreted differently in different countries. Therefore, it not-infrequently arises that a CITES export certificate is issued by the country where the animal is hunted, yet the UK or the EU or whoever refuses to issue a complementary CITES import permit allowing the trophy to enter the country. It is utterly tedious.

 

[Grannysmith]

She's not a bit of fluff she is a dangerous person who seems to be influencing govt policy