The National Trust has been accused of backtracking on a promise to publish the routes used in controversial trail hunts held on its lands after the charity said it did not want to encourage a climate of confrontation between followers and protesters. A motion to prohibit trust land from being used for trail hunting was narrowly defeated at the charity’s AGM last month. Trail hunts involve hounds and riders follow a pre-laid scent path but many regard it as a means of circumventing the 2004 Hunting Act. Helen Beynon, the NT member who tabled the AGM motion accused the trust of lying to its members. “However, we do not want to encourage or create a climate of confrontation between trail hunt followers or protesters.

Source: The Guardian November 04, 2017 15:33 UTC