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UK Lead Organisations:
County Lead Organisation:
Objectives
- To maintain the current existing populations within Staffordshire.
- To expand the existing populations in Staffordshire.
Policy
- Seek to ensure that policy makers for agricultural land are 'Hare Aware'. (SBAP Partnership, SMG)
Protection
- Hares are game species and enjoy some limited protection through the Ground Game Act 1880 and the Hare Protection Act 1911. They may not be offered for sale between 1 March and 31 July, a discouragement to shooting during the main breeding period.
Management, Monitoring, Research and Survey
- Survey and recording is undertaken by Staffordshire Mammal Group.
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Advice on habitats available from Staffordshire Wildlife Trust, the Staffordshire Mammal Group and FWAG.
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An SBAP Species Recording Card has been produced and circulated for the brown hare.
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Seek to target long term set-a-side to increase hare numbers, especially on the fringe of current distribution. (DEFRA, FWAG)
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Seek to manage non-agricultural land e.g. amenity grassland and parkland to encourage hares. (Landowners, Developers)
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Seek to incorporate beneficial brown hare management practices into Staffordshire County Council farms estate tenancy agreements. (County Farm Estates)
Advisory
Further Information
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