Survey on Fox Protection:
2021
Survation Poll backs greater fox protection...
A poll conducted by Survation on behalf of Protect the Wild reveals that 63.6% of those surveyed think foxes should be given greater protection in the UK.
The question was posed by anti-hunting organisation Protect the Wild in a survey about trail hunting, but Question 3 of the survey asked about better protection for foxes.
Foxes have very little protection under UK-wide legislation (see ‘Foxes and the Law’) and the survey revealed that a large majority of respondents believe foxes should be given greater protection in the UK.
While almost 2/3rds of respondents believed foxes should indeed be given better legal protection, 23.2% of respondents said that they should not. This perhaps reflects the frequent scare stories in the media and a narratve put about by hunts that foxes need ‘controlling’ (though the specific questions drilling down into the response weren’t asked).
