Hare Preservation Trust

[Richie10 345]

The Hare was brought to the UK for the Romans to course with dogs.

 

Hare coursing events stopped people shooting large numbers which can have adverse affects on the Hare population.

 

The Hare Trust are against all fieldsports, the very thing that kept Hares alive in this country in the first place.

 

Bring back Coursing clubs and you will see an increase in the population as farmers could work with clubs to provide suitable habitats.

 

It would work but I'm guessing the Trust is about Animal rights than preserving the speices.

 

It would be nice to have someone from the Trust respond.

[CarraghsGem 92]

link to their site

 

http://www.hare-preservation-trust.co.uk/

[Cheshire Poacher 6]

The hare is native to the uk mate rabbits were brought here by the romans for food and not sport

[Richie10 345]

That's what I thought, but it seems that hares made it from Asia across Europe but didn't make it to the UK before we separated from the continent.

 

From the BBC:

 

Hares are much longer-limbed and swifter than rabbits. They use their powerful hind legs to escape predation by outrunning their enemies, and have been known to reach speeds of 72kph (45mph). Brown hares are widespread throughout central and western Europe, including most of the UK, where they were introduced by the Romans. Courtship involves boxing, and this well-known 'mad March hare' behaviour actually involves unreceptive females fending off passionate males.

[kevin from bristol 95]

all i can say is they look faster than 45mph hahaha it doesn't matter how they got here we need to look to the future rather than the past i know a farmer that recently shot 128 in one night because of there numbers on his land and the damage they were doing i think this is a waste and coursing did used to keep the numbers down you can not totally wipe out the hare population with dogs but you can with guns and kindness

[Richie10 345]

all i can say is they look faster than 45mph hahaha it doesn't matter how they got here we need to look to the future rather than the past i know a farmer that recently shot 128 in one night because of there numbers on his land and the damage they were doing i think this is a waste and coursing did used to keep the numbers down you can not totally wipe out the hare population with dogs but you can with guns and kindness

 

Mad waste, I would have thought by putting this land out to clubs he would earn some additional cash and reduce the population to managable levels.

[Casso 1,261]

That's what I thought, but it seems that hares made it from Asia across Europe but didn't make it to the UK before we separated from the continent.

 

From the BBC:

 

Hares are much longer-limbed and swifter than rabbits. They use their powerful hind legs to escape predation by outrunning their enemies, and have been known to reach speeds of 72kph (45mph). Brown hares are widespread throughout central and western Europe, including most of the UK, where they were introduced by the Romans. Courtship involves boxing, and this well-known 'mad March hare' behaviour actually involves unreceptive females fending off passionate males.

 

 

What about the mountain hare of the highlands,that developes a winter coat, thats got to be native, and the irish hare, no romans over here,,

[Richie10 345]

Mountain Hare is the UK's native Hare.

[Casso 1,261]

That's what I thought, but it seems that hares made it from Asia across Europe but didn't make it to the UK before we separated from the continent.

 

From the BBC:

 

Hares are much longer-limbed and swifter than rabbits. They use their powerful hind legs to escape predation by outrunning their enemies, and have been known to reach speeds of 72kph (45mph). Brown hares are widespread throughout central and western Europe, including most of the UK, where they were introduced by the Romans. Courtship involves boxing, and this well-known 'mad March hare' behaviour actually involves unreceptive females fending off passionate males.

 

Courtship sounds like a good nite out round here,,

[charlie boy 85]

the brown hare was introduced to the uk its not a native specis. in decline there not around my way thats for sure

[blacktabs 3]

Always believed brown and mountain hares and the irish hare were here long before the romans i know they brought rabbits always thought the hares came over during the ice age interestingly as well as hare remains i read about the oldest dog remains found in the uk they were of a whippet type 4000 bc at stonehenge atb.

Edited August 20, 2010 by blacktabs

[chester 147]

There’s no evidence of Brown Hares (Lepus europaeus) living in the UK before Roman times and it has been suggested that the Romans introduced them. The UK’s only native hare is the Mountain Hare (Lepus timidus) which is quite common in Scotland and Ireland, and there’s also a colony in the Peak District. Unlike Brown Hares, the Mountain Hare’s fur turns white in the winter, apart from the black tips of its ears.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/naturestop40/ep7/s14.shtml

the romans brought the hare and the running dog.

http://resourcesforhistory.com/Roman_Food_in_Britain.htm

 

http://www.nationalcoursingclub.org/the%20hares.htm

[kevin from bristol 95]

all i can say is they look faster than 45mph hahaha it doesn't matter how they got here we need to look to the future rather than the past i know a farmer that recently shot 128 in one night because of there numbers on his land and the damage they were doing i think this is a waste and coursing did used to keep the numbers down you can not totally wipe out the hare population with dogs but you can with guns and kindness

 

Mad waste, I would have thought by putting this land out to clubs he would earn some additional cash and reduce the population to managable levels.

 

 

i agree it could be done ,i think if the antis had seen a fammer culling hares witha gun they would know that there not all hit square on and die quick not sure why they have this dream they don't feel it and its over in a second from ? but yes bring back the clubs they don't have to watch just let us get on with it

[Leeview 791]

The hare is native to the uk mate rabbits were brought here by the romans for food and not sport

The hare was introducd to this country by the Romans

The rabbit was introduced centuries later by the Normans as a source of food

As for coursing clubs the landowners helped a lot with conservation and habitat to encourage the hare very successfully unfortunately it also received unwanted attention from poachers and that brought on the drastic measures of hare shoots

Y.I.S Leeview

[Richie10 345]

I thought the Hare shoots were just to reduce numbers/damage.

 

Never heard it was to reduce poaching, only after the ban.