There’s #NoDefence for fox hunting.

Many major landowners including the National Trust and Forestry England have stopped issuing ‘trail hunting’ licences, effectively banning hunting on their land.

The Ministry of Defence though is holding out. It is still licencing so-called ‘trail hunts’ on huge areas of land including Salisbury Plain, the hunting ground of the notorious Royal Artillery Hunt (RAH). The Plain is one of the most important grasslands in Europe with many parts of it covered by SSSis and SACs.

An MoD spokesman said: ‘Trail hunting continues to be permitted on MoD land, subject to hunts obtaining and abiding by the terms of a trail hunting licence and the law.

But monitors and sabs routinely see hunts like the RAH hunting illegally on MoD land using MoD-issued trail hunting licences.

Protect the Wild is calling on the Defence Infrastructure Organisation to stop the issuing of grants and supporting licences and ensure hunts are permanently banned from MoD land.