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Welfare Implications for Hares, Lepus timidus hibernicus, Taken from the Wild for Licensed Hare Coursing in Ireland

Andrew Kelly

Animals2020, 10(1), 163;https://doi.org/10.3390/ani10010163

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17 January 2020

Hare coursing is legal in the Republic of Ireland under licenses issued to coursing clubs but is illegal in other jurisdictions in the British Isles including Northern Ireland. Supporters of coursing maintain that coursing contributes to the conserva...

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Rabbit Haemorrhagic Disease Virus 2 (RHDV2; GI.2) in Ireland Focusing on Wild Irish Hares (Lepus timidus hibernicus): An Overview of the First Outbreaks and Contextual Review

Andrew W. Byrne,
Ferdia Marnell,
Damien Barrett,
Neil Reid,
Robert E. B. Hanna,
Máire C. McElroy and
Mícheál Casey

Pathogens2022, 11(3), 288;https://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens11030288

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24 February 2022

Rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus 2 (RHDV2; GI.2) is a pathogenic lagovirus that emerged in 2010, and which now has a global distribution. Outbreaks have been associated with local population declines in several lagomorph species, due to rabbit haemo...

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