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- The UK government will ban shooting hares for most of the year as part of new animal welfare laws.
- Nature Minister Mary Creagh announced that the ban also extends to trail hunting to curb fox deaths.
- Creagh noted brown hares have declined 80% over the past century.
- About 200,000 hares are killed annually in commercial shoots, leaving leverets to starve.
- The laws respond to public demand for stricter regulation and improved welfare.
