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This is Fieldsports Channel News.
There's a new world hunting ambassador and she's gorgeous. The WFSA Ambassador Award
2014 goes to Theresa Vail - Miss Kansas 2013. Theresa started hunting and shooting competitively
in her teens. Her motto now is ‘Anything boys can do, girls can do better'.
Foxhunters, staghunters, terriermen, minkhunters, beaglers and even mousehunters are waiting
with bated breath. UK prime minster David Cameron prepares to hold a vote on what the
government calls "viable amendment" to the 2004 hunting restrictions, which would allow
up to 40 hounds to flush out a fox to face waiting guns rather than the two ordered by
Tony Blair. The vote is expected to be shortly after we filmed this bulletin.
French farmers are wolf hunting legally again, even though it is banned by Berne Convention.
Farmers in Provence lost 100 sheep to a growing wolf population in January and 6,000 in 2013,
so they have obtained an exemption which allows them to shoot 24 of the estimated 300 animals.
With the spring hunting season about to start on Malta, anti-hunting pressure groups CABS
and BirdLife report widespread illegal trapping. Serins, Chaffinches, Linnets and Greenfinches
all migrate to Europe from Africa via Malta. Both organisations criticised the lack of
police presence in the field and the failure of authorities to properly enforce the law
to curb the problem.
The aussies have shown that amateur pest control works.
Over the past 2 and half years the The Victorian Fox Bounty program has taken 250,000 foxes
out of the states wilderness. The government handed out £1.4 million to Victorian Hunters
during that time, less than six quid per fox. Compare this to the British badger cull, which
cost more than £4,000 per badger.
Meanwhile, the Australian RSPCA has admitted one of its animal welfare officers did not
treat a fox with "dignity and respect" after it shot an injured fox and left on the side
of a bike path near Adelaide.
And finally it's been a while but we have a big fox story. Scott Mackenzie sent us a
picture of this monster fox from the Isle of Skye. This fox measured 51 inches in length
and 21 inches to the shoulder, an inch short of the last Skye monster fox picture Scott
shot. As he says The Isle of Skye is fast becoming the "Big Fox Capital" of Britain.
You are now up to date with Fieldsports Channel News. Stalking the Stories. Fishing for Facts.
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