Hunt Racing

 The main purpose of this chapter is to describe the different types of hunting covered by our terms of reference. We also give a brief summary of the legal position. And we say something about the way organised hunting is run and financed and what it costs. Finally, we give some information about other types of hunting, involving the use of dogs, which fall outside our terms of reference and about hunting-related activities such as point-to-point and National Hunt racing. The animals were hunted by the thousands, and by the end of the First World War the species was completely wiped out in the Land of Israel. It was thought at the time that the entire species (or subspecies, depending on which taxonomic listing is used) had become extinct throughout its geographical range. The cherished goal was to breed the deer and eventually return them to the wild in their historical homeland, in the forests of Western Galilee. The Persian fallow deer is listed in the Book of Deuteronomy(14:5) among the seven species of non domesticated ungulates (hoofed animals) that the Children of Israel were permitted to eat. In plain modern language, this meant that these deer were kosher. In 1955 the Baron von Opel (the renowned car manufacturer, who also happened to be an amateur zoologist) discovered a small herd of Persian fallow deer taking refuge in the vicinity of the Dez River in western Iran. Von Opel acquired a number of deer for the Opel Park Zoo in Kronberg, Germany, and began breeding the animals.

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