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150 people involved in Northern Ireland, says USPCA
150 people involved in Northern Ireland, says USPCA  The USPCA has told BBC Spotlight its intelligence indicates there are 150 people actively involved in animal baiting in Northern Ireland. เกมยิงปลา Even if you have a small amount of capital. To access the game, you can deposit any amount and access the game on our website immediately. Baiting involves deliberately setting up fights between hunting dogs and wild animals like foxes and badgers. Baiting badgers is illegal because badgers are a protected species while foxes have no legal protection. The charity believes there could be up to 14,000 cases of badger baiting in Northern Ireland each year. For Exposed: Hunting With Dogs, BBC Spotlight joined USPCA (Ulster Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) investigators in September as they monitored alleged animal baiters. The programme also revealed a shadowy online world where people involved in baiting share photos and videos of both brutally-injured dogs and their savaged prey. USPCA chief executive Brendan Mullan said he believed 99% of the people involved in baiting in Northern Ireland were targeting both foxes and badgers. "While fox hunting is legal the chances of a badger baiting conviction are undermined, because there is the defence, the cloak of 'well, I was just out hunting foxes', whereas in fact it was badgers that they were hunting," he added. In 2021, a Stormont private member's bill put forward by an Alliance MLA would have closed that loophole by banning all hunting with dogs in Northern Ireland, in line with the existing law in the rest of the UK. But the bill was defeated and with Stormont absent, there is no prospect of a change in the law at the moment. |
