Dead wild animal - what next if anything?

[Steevo]

If a fox or any other wild animal dies of natural causes on your land....is there anything to say whether you have a legal obligation to do or not to do anything?

Are there any circumstances where this is different?

 

[Farmer Roy]

FFS

 

[egbert]

Mouse? Elephant?

 

[Jackov Altraids]

I would guess you would have to follow a trail of responsibility.
In the unusual circumstance that someone made a complaint, first responsibility would be to the animals owner or carer.
If there was no owner/ carer then the landowner would only be responsible if the dead body was causing a specific environmental issue such as decomposing near a water source/course. You would then be responsible for the water so by default, need to deal with the dead animal.

The whole area would be far too grey to result in any kind of conviction.

 

[CPF]

If a fox or any other wild animal dies of natural causes on your land....is there anything to say whether you have a legal obligation to do or not to do anything?

Are there any circumstances where this is different?

Why.
Have you had issues or complaints regarding dead wild animals ?

 

[Cowmansam]

If it’s stripey your guilty then until proven otherwise

 

[David.]

If it is a hen harrier, I don't think I would say too much about it, particularly if I had been making a noise pigeon shooting yesterday...

 

[Pigken]

If its one of these you are meant to have a licence to handle, so defra told me.

 

[Princess Pooper]

If it's protected eg badger, bird of prey and you have any reason to be suspicious then I would report it.

 

[Cowmansam]

If its one of these you are meant to have a licence to handle, so defra told me. View attachment 981441

I had a polecat go into a kennel with 2 terrier last year wasn’t it’s smartest move

 

[unlacedgecko]

If a fox or any other wild animal dies of natural causes on your land....is there anything to say whether you have a legal obligation to do or not to do anything?

Are there any circumstances where this is different?

If you suspect TB, it's a notifiable disease. You're supposed to inform APHA.

 

[unlacedgecko]

I had a polecat go into a kennel with 2 terrier last year wasn’t it’s smartest move

You're brave keeping 2 terriers in 1 kennel.

 

[Brisel]

I had a polecat go into a kennel with 2 terrier last year wasn’t it’s smartest move

Any harm to the terriers?

 

[Cowmansam]

You're brave keeping 2 terriers in 1 kennel.

Retired pair not got many teeth and been together the last 7 years no problems

 

[Cowmansam]

Any harm to the terriers?

They where pretty smelly after

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Dead Aminals don't hang about long here ,eaten in a day , not by me either , but dad would put most dead things in the pot

 

[Ffermer Bach]

If it is a dead badger, the Welsh Assembly will pick it up to check for TB, not sure why as I am pretty sure I saw a video of Mark Drakeford saying TB is nothing to do with Badgers!

 

[DaveGrohl]

Rewilding innit.

 

[farmbrew]

Pole Cat, got them here too, playing havoc with the wild birds

 

[Dry Rot]

You're brave keeping 2 terriers in 1 kennel.

Dog and bitch?