We urgently need your help to prevent the local Waveney & Norfolk Harriers hunt parading through Bungay town centre on Boxing Day. 

We are asking Bungay Town Council to put pressure on the polic and Suffolk County Council's highway department not to allow the hunt to parade through the town. There is no road closure application in place therefore the hunt should not be allowed to parade.

Some information -

Some of the hunts supporters are still not aware that trail hunting is a smokescreen and the hunt actively kill wildlife! 

https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/horrible-moment-deer-is-mauled-by-waveney-harrier-hounds-during-1521210 Click the link to see news article and video of the Waveney Harriers hounds attacking a deer. The local council and police should not be allowing this group of people to break the law and kill wildlife. Another example can be seen here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV2g3Tja-WI&ab_channel=Norfolk%2FSuffolkHuntSaboteurs

We urge Bungay Town Council, Suffolk County Council, Suffolk Constabulary and local land owners to ensure that the hunt is not allowed to parade through the streets this Boxing Day or any other day. It is time that local councils stood up to wildlife criminals and did the right thing.

An explosive exposé aired on ITV in November 2020 showed senior figures within the Master of Fox Hounds Association and the Countryside Alliance caught on camera admitting that ‘trail’ hunting is a “smokescreen” for the chasing and killing of foxes.

The former Director of the Masters of Fox Hounds Association, Mark Hankinson, was found guilty of encouraging hunt masters from across the country to break the 2004 Hunting Act. Senior hunting officials were caught on camera orchestrating how to best continue pursuing wildlife. Fortunately, these recordings were leaked for the world to see. It is therefore unsurprising that many major landowners have now taken the decision to ban the hunts from their land. Natural Resources Wales took the right step and permanently ended all hunting licences on their land.

However this hasn’t stopped hunts across the country continuing to peddle the “trail hunt” lies and use it to cover up the sordid killing of wildlife. The hunting season is already underway and foxes continue to be torn to pieces by hounds.  

The Waveney &Norfolk Harriers Hunt are planning to hold a parade through the town of Bungay on Boxing Day. To go ahead with this event the following should be in place -Coverage about the petition by the local newspaper 

The event organiser should complete an events application pack as well as a risk assessment, there should be an application to obtain permission to close the roads (at least 3 months in advance), they would need a street collection licence with sealed buckets, equipment to safely close the roads and protect the public, there should also be an organised clean up following the event - with the exception of the street collection licence none of these other actions are thought to have been implemented last year (although the buckets were not sealed!)

https://www.suffolk.gov.uk/roads-and-transport/roadworks/apply-to-close-a-road-for-an-event/#:~:text=Once%20you%20have%20ascertained%20that,receipt%20of%20a%20complete%20application.

After the ban came in to force, the hunts could have converted to genuine drag hunting or to ‘clean boot’ hunting instead of chasing and killing animals, but instead, they chose the latter.

The hunts operate in the same locations they used prior to the ban – areas which are known to contain foxes (or hares, deer or mink).

Trail hunts are sometimes accompanied by terrier men – contractors who follow the hunt on quadbikes, with terrier dogs. In traditional hunting these dogs were sent underground to find a fox if it had escaped, by hiding in a hole underground for example. 

Terrier men would place the terrier in the hole to force the fox out so the chase could continue. If trail hunts genuinely don’t try to catch foxes, why are they always accompanied by terrier men?

Trail hunts very rarely involve laying a trail. Since the Hunting Act 2004 was enacted, over 30 hunt monitors have released more than 4,000 monitor reports in which witnesses report seeing someone lay a possible trail in an average of around only 3% of occasions where they monitored hunts. They believe however, that only an average of around 0.04% of the occasions witnessed, were a genuine trail hunting event.

Now the hunting fraternity themselves have admitted to using trail hunting as an excuse to circumvent the law, it is only a matter of time before trail hunting comes to an end.  

Over 85% of the UK population are opposed to fox hunting https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/fox-hunting-poll-boxing-day-league-against-cruel-sports-ban-theresa-may-election-a8127851.html

We need your help now more than ever before! Please sign our petition so we can show them just how many people do NOT want them parading through our town