Hunters cannot decide whether they are thinning out or conserving foxes?
A. Hunting helps to reduce the fox population to a level that agriculture and wild species can tolerate. The RSPB has used limited fox control on its bird sanctuaries. Nobody wants the fox wiped out. The culture of hunting saves the fox from demotion to vermin status, when it would be controlled more ruthlessly, like the rat. Hunting thins out and conserves. Simple, isn’t it? Q. If hounds are really necessary as part of fox control surely you can simply use them to flush the foxes out of undergrowth to enable a group of shooters on the outside to kill the foxes? Wouldn’t this be quicker and more humane? A. This system is used in parts of Scotland, Wales and the West Country. In these areas huge tracts of forestry, (up to 50,000 acres in one block) are almost impossible to hunt by traditional means and other forms of fox control are virtually impossible, and certainly ineffective. Packs of foxhounds are therefore used to hunt these foxes and ‘guns’ stand on tracks through the woodlands
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