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King Charles accused of hypocrisy as 12 foxes 'shot and strung' on his land
(www.dailyrecord.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 01 Feb 2026
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I've not read the full story but there's nothing hypocritical about being pro conservation and wanting to manage a fox population.
Foxes will absolutely lay waste to any ground laying birds, and they have no natural predators so you can figure it where that ends up.
Is there a pro-conservation reason for stringing them up? genuine question.
Like some territory marking thing ?
That aside, fox hunting as a "sport" is traditionally a shitshow , not because of the foxes dying specifically , but because of the way it is conducted.
This doesn’t seem to be related to fox hunting (the "sport") though, perhaps the two are being conflated here, or there is some sort of link not disclosed ?
I guess they were coming back to pick them up again later?
And totally agree about fox hunting. Chasing an animal to exhaustion and ripping them apart with dogs is just savagery. Literally animal torture for fun.
That makes sense, didn't even think of that.
They are native there. Your argument lacks merit, let me be the first to downvote your despicable comment.
Oh, we should just let the predator populations explode, ensuring they hunt prey populations to extinction before they all starve to death, solving the problem altogether. Big brain idea, we need visionaries like you in charge of wildlife!
Ah yes, predator control, coming from the groups that have long wanted to wipe every predator off the face of the land. From wolves to foxes, cormorants to birds of prey, (which royal properties habitually illegally poison by the way and use their influence to avoid investigation, as per a recent guardian investigation,) bears to mountain lions, tigers, lions, african painted dogs and dholes and dingos.
It is not surprising someone giving the benefit of the doubt to such people wanting to extirpate predators would have an annoying moving picture in their name on the thread too, it speaks to your character that you opted to annoy everyone you interact with as such.