The Government has been accused of destroying a 150-year-old tradition after effectively banning the country's only stag hunt. Cracking the green whip, Environment Minister John Gormley banned the ...

The best part about belly-crawling toward a herd of rut-distracted Argentine stags, besides the tang of anticipation in the back of my throat, is the lack of both cactus and rattlesnakes. That, and ...

A stag flanked by two female red deer, or "hinds," trotted down a steep moorland pasture toward a wood. Two mounted hunters were behind them, and staghounds were in between. The deer's trot was faster ...

This month, the Department of the Environment will decide whether to yet again grant a licence to the country's only carted stag hunt. The "sport" involves the pursuit with hounds of a farmed or ...

The South West is the most common- if not the only - area of the UK where stag hunting with hounds takes place. Inside Out reveals startling new evidence about the extent to which hunted deer suffer.

New laws to ban stag hunting with hounds will be successfully delivered despite strong opposition within Government ranks, Taoiseach Brian Cowen has insisted. Amid severe criticism from backbench TDs ...

In the House of Commons last week, a bill was introduced to prohibit stag hunting in England. John Alexander Lovat-Fraser, 62-year-old Laborite, representing the Lichfield Division of Staffordshire, a ...

Devon & Somerset Staghounds has denied illegal hunting activity after footage has been shared of an alleged deadly stag hunt. The incident occurred on Saturday, August 9, when the hunt met in ...

Hunters who chased an exhausted stag for more than two hours have been accused of causing “depraved scenes of bloodlust”. Members of North Dorset Hunt Saboteurs who filmed the hunt say they believe ...

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