Kimblewick Hunt Licensed For Hunting On Public Land The Day After Its Terrier-men Were Convicted
This will just be a quick update following the news earlier this week regarding the Kimblewick Hunt and the fact that two of its terrier-men were convicted under the [now strengthened] Animal Welfare Act 2006. I don’t wish to repeat anything that’s been said so for more information please read yesterday’s entry on this blog ‘Men Guilty of Animal Cruelty’ or the Hunt Saboteurs Association press release. The covert footage that led to the conviction can be seen in this Daily Mail article dated 07/01/2019, six days after it was filmed.
The case itself was at Oxford Magistrates Court on 30th October 2019. The very next day, Forestry England [a government department managing our forests] saw fit to allow the Kimblewick Hunt to hunt on their land and have additionally granted them five more dates [9th & 26th November 2019, 12th December 2019 and 9th & 11th January 2020]. For context the Kimblewick Hunt were licensed for four hunting dates by Forestry England in the 2018-19 hunting season [27th December 2018, 15th January 2019, 14th February 2019 and 14th March 2019 – according to a document the Forestry Commission provided to me on 24th January 2019 under the Environmental Information Regulations 2004].
It’s not an unfair question to ask why this hunt is still being licensed to hunt on land belonging to a government department.
In fact, you can ask this of the Forestry Commission’s board by asking their Commissioners at commissioners@forestrycommission.gov.uk before their next board meeting on December 16th.
For a list of all the other hunts currently licensed to hunt on Forestry England’s land and what to do about it, please see this regularly updated article from ‘Stop Hunting on the Nation’s Land’.
This blog was written by Jack Riggall who is an independent anti-hunting campaigner and hunt monitor.
Wild Mammal Persecution UK 
Surely the forestry commission act on behalf of the country’s people. Not the few privileged thugs with hounds.
Please revoke any hints to be allowed in our forests.
Many thanks
Peter Wilmott
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Why do these people think they are above the law?
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All forms of hunting should be banned, and the band upheld, too many cases out there where there is proof of fox hunting and nothing is being done, please recind this licence, they are not fit to hold any form of consent on anyone’s land, a total shambles with disgraceful behaviour, bullying tactics. Grrrrr
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I am shocked that the vicious persecution of wild animals is being allowed on Forestry Commission land.
How is this possible?
Do you have no governance or oversight of your properties, or do you just proceed with a feckless apathy?
Please make this an urgent priority at your next management meeting, if you ever have them.
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