"Hunting uniquely reproduces the natural selection process whereby weak and sick animals are culled in direct relation to their debility, thereby promoting the health and vigour of the species. Hunting leaves no wounded or damaged survivors
A balanced wild life population will not result from a ‘hands off’ approach. In the man-made countryside, control of an over-successful species is best achieved by a combination of legal methods undertaken by farmers, gamekeepers, landowners, naturalists and huntsmen, with their divergent interests using the appropriate methods of control for their particular circumstances.
Hunting performs a vital search and dispatch function whereby the weak, the sick and the injured are discovered and quickly dispatched. No other method of culling performs this function and now that hunting is banned, the welfare situation for all hunted species is already worsening.
Death in the wild, in the absence of natural predators and without hunting, involves pain, sepsis, gangrene, starvation, hypothermia, for days even weeks before death finally supervenes.
Man has a responsibility to manage the countryside he has created and the wildlife populations therein. Laissez faire will not do!
For more information on the subject including:
- Hunting is the natural and most humane method of controlling the populations of all four quarry species
- The serious deficiencies and flaws of the Burns report on animal welfare
- The welfare anomalies and inhumanities of the Hunting Act "
