According to the National Trust’s facts and figures page, the charity enjoys a membership base of nearly 6 million people. They are also the UK’s largest farm owner with nearly 250,000 hectares of land and more than 1,300 tenant farmers.

Their website declares that they are “committed to farming with both food production and nature in mind, so plants and animals can thrive.”

However, their apathetic stance towards trail-hunting incidents on their land contradicts their stated values, which is deeply disheartening.

The illuminating account provided by ‘Protect the Wild’ below, sheds light on this issue.

National Trust: failure to enforce ban emboldening hunts

About ‘Protect the Wild’

Founded in 2015 as ‘Keep The Ban’ and now relaunched as ‘Protect the Wild’, they are a non-profit organisation working to empower people to protect British wildlife by using multimedia to campaign on key issues, inform the public about wildlife matters, and support activists taking direct action in the field.

You can join and support their vial for our wildlife work, here.