Foxes
(asked on 21st July 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment she has made of the population size of foxes.
This question was answered on 8th September 2015
The last estimate of the fox population, published by the Mammal Society in 2004, indicated that the fox population in Great Britain was around 258,000.
Analysis based on a different methodology as part of the British Trust for Ornithology’s Breeding Bird Survey, which collects supplementary information on UK mammals, shows a statistically significant decline of 29% in the fox population between 1995 and 2014.