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Nov 2023
Councillors in North Yorkshire have rejected calls to ban trail hunting on North Yorkshire Council owned land.
This week, Labour councillor Rich Maw, who represents Weaponness and Ramshill, and Green councillor Arnold Warneken, who represents Ouseburn, tabled a motion at a full council meeting to prohibit the practice.
Trail hunting involves laying an animal scent, usually urine, for hounds to track and is followed by a group on foot or horseback.
The practice is legal, but organisations such as animal welfare charity the RSPCA and the League Against Cruel Sports have called for it to be banned.
Cllr Maw and Warneken said in their motion the hunts had been used as a “loophole to carry on hunting foxes and other animals”.
At a meeting on Thursday, Cllr Warneken said:
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