Foxes: Urban Areas
(asked on 18th March 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what estimate they have made, if any, of the number of foxes currently living in urban areas; and whether this population has (1) increased, or (2) decreased, since 2017.
This question was answered on 1st April 2022
Current estimates are that there are about 255,000 foxes in England of which about half live in urban areas, giving an estimated urban population of about 127,500. There has been no assessment of trend in fox populations for the period since 2017.