Foreigners to join Countryside March
24 January 2001
Foreigners to join Countryside March
By FWi staff
HUNT supporters from Germany, Denmark and America are expected to join the Countryside March as a show of solidarity with their British counterparts.
The Countryside Alliance said the Federation of Associations for Hunting and Conservation in the European Union had voiced its support for the event.
The federation has encouraged its European members to join in, an alliance spokesman told FARMERS WEEKLY on Tuesday (23 January).
The alliance is waiting confirmation that the German gamekeepers association will also get involved, she said.
The plan is that the overseas contingent will march in two groups after the main march has taken place at 9.30am.
A group with everyone from Europe and the USA will then set off from Southwark Bridge at 11am, the alliance spokeswoman added.
The Masters of Fox Hounds from America and Canada have been invited, as have group from the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Several members of the European Landowners Association are set march through London in a special overseas contingent on 18 March, said organisers.
Anthony Bosanquet, president of the Country Land and Business Association, said he believed Danish landowners would be among those joining the march.
- The Countryside March – Sunday 18 March, 2001
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