irish hares

[SeanTheHawker 0]

just a quick question, i know its illegal in the north, but are you still aloud to hunt them in south?

[Guest Lurchers2006]

Yes but in the winter time otherwise you will only be running leverets..

[Guest Frank]

How comes its illegal in the north?

I thought it was the same as here?

 

Frank.

[luke 2]

british law in the north i think frank i could be wrong

[Guest Frank]

Never thought of that.

 

Thank god i live down south.

But, i have a feeling its not ileagle, just a hunch.

 

Anyone else from up their know about this?

 

Thanks,

 

Frank.

[Guest Frank]

british law in the north i think frank i could be wrong

 

IT WAS MADE ILLEGAL ON THE 26TH NOVEMBER 2002 ,

BY A HALF WIT KNOWN AS ANGELA SMITH ,SHE

PASSED THIS LAW IN STORMONT UNOPPOSED AS THERE WAS

NO ASSEMBLY AT THE TIME AND ANY SO CALLED ELECTED MPS

DID NOT TAKE THEIR SEATS ( ONLY THEIR WAGES ) ,SO SHE

HAD A FREE REIGN TO DO WHAT SHE WANTED UNOPPOSED .

 

Thats fecking discracefull.

Should not of hapened.

 

Frank.

[Ricky-N.p.p 0]

makes me f*ckin sick !!

Its descusting in the true meaning of the word !

[Guest oldskool]

are you folk completely sure about that??? i remember reading a thread a few months back saying that a ban was put in place according to hare numbers in a certain area???

[Guest Frank]

Im getting confused, which one is it folks?

 

Frank.

[Guest oldskool]

this is the thread i found....

 

 

Hi Guys

 

SACS has thousands of members in NI, and I've been involved with some of the stuff on brown hares there.

 

You have a woman Minister responsible for the environment there - I won't mention her name, but it seems that she is kinda anti fieldsports, to put it mildly.

 

A temporary ban on killing your brown hares was sneaked through a couple of years ago - it's a one-year ban, and needs to be renewed annually by the NIO. SACS is working in the background trying to get this nonsense sorted out for you.

 

There are two things you might want to know - firstly, the RSPB is hell-bent on re-introducing eagles in NI. What do eagles eat? Correct - hares. Who dictates policy to your Environment and Heritage Service? The RSPB? I couldn't possibly comment!

 

Secondly, the lad who is your Wildlife Officer in the EHS is John Milburn - he is a great lad, very sensible and practical, and not in the least biased against us.

 

He told me about a study on hares there, where the numbers were monitored in certain areas for a few years, both before and after this temporary ban. The hare population has remained low but stable both before and after the ban, except for one year.

 

That year, there was a VERY long wet spring, and the silage couldn't be cut until much later in the year than normal. That year, the hare population increased TENFOLD!

 

So, the evidence would suggest that shooting and coursing has bugger-all effect on the hare population, but the modern way of farming kills most of the leverets by chopping them with the silage.

 

I'm trying to get a scheme approved by the Ministry which would pay farmers not to cut any crops until the leverets are old enough to escape from the cutters, and any help would be welcome.

 

Hope this helps - if there's anything else I can do, just get in touch.

 

Ian Clark, Scottish Association for Country Sports

[Ricky-N.p.p 0]

would a petition help ??

 

[Guest Frank]

would a petition help ??

 

 

Agree, their should be one.

 

Frank.

[SeanTheHawker 0]

Yes but in the winter time otherwise you will only be running leverets..

dont hunt at this time of year mate

[Guest JDF]

temporay ban is still in place supposed to be under review shortly.told this last week by a member of the heritage and enviroment.

[dEs 6]

Lads im pleased to say use are all wrong because the order on the killing,taking,netting,selling and whatever other shite of Irish hares in N.I ended on the 31st of March. Of this i am 95% positive. It is an order that only lasts for a year and has to be renewed.. i think it was 2 years ago there was no order renewed but it was last year but this has thankfully ended on the 31st of last month. No doubt like someone has sayed it will be under review anytime soon.. hopefully the assembly can sort something out and quit this shite order once and for all.

 

Just on another couple of points people made.. On the 1st and 2nd orders brought in there was petitions signed against the orders. The amount of signatures run into several thousands if i can remember correctly.. the 1st order was basically shoved through by yer doll Angela in a couple of weeks.. no consultation etc but sure they're the government, right?

 

The point made about hare numbers was what the government used as a big point to get the order in.. saying that there was as few as 8000 in the whole of the North (bollocks) but the next year i think it was Queens Uni sayed there was as many as ,000 - 90,000 hares in the North. There was also talk of a rare species act or something which if it was brought in made the hare pretty much on par with a badger

 

Sometimes you really have to wonder.

 

Good luck anyway lads... your free to hunt them as of now. But leave em till the Autumn