Hare coursing is banned, but that's not stopping some - in the last year there have been 280 reports to Thames Valley Police and five arrests. It's like having a really nice lawn... and then someone coming and doing handbrake turns on it, one farmer told us. | BBC Oxfordshire

🚔 Two men have been banned from setting foot on private or agricultural land across England and Wales for three years, following a landmark police crackdown on hare coursing. | Farmers Weekly

There's a surge in illegal 'hare coursing' - using dogs to chase hares in open countryside, which can leave a trail of chaos and destruction. It was banned 20 years ago, but police have told 5 News it's on the rise. Rebecca Mbogoro reports. | Channel 5 News

The cruelty of hare coursing was exposed on RTE's Six One News this evening with a hare shown being carried away after suffering a severe mauling during Clonmel's shameful coursing festival. ACTION ALERT Contact Minister Heather Humphreys now and urge her to stop licensing hare coursing Heather Humphreys, TD Minister for Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht Affairs Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht 23 Kildare Street, Dublin 2 Email: Heather.Humphreys@oireachtas.ie, ministers.office@ahg.gov.

The video footage Ireland's cruel hare coursers don't want you to see. Our footage was filmed on Sunday morning and on Monday afternoon before we came under attack from a balaclava-clad courser thug who roared "give me that f***ing camera". The video captures the awful plight of hares used in coursing - a bloodsport shamefully licensed by Minister Heather Humphreys and the National Parks and Wildlife Service. The terrorised hares - all cruelly netted from the wild - could be seen desperately run