Editing Fox hunting (section)

===Australia===
In Australia, the European [[red fox]] was introduced solely for the purpose of fox hunting in 1855.<ref name=ACF1>{{cite web|publisher=Australian Conservation Foundation |title=Australia's Noah's Ark springs a leak |last=Eastham |first=Jaime |url=http://www.acfonline.org.au/news.asp?news_id=345&c=10032 |access-date=10 February 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604204347/http://www.acfonline.org.au/news.asp?news_id=345&c=10032 |archive-date=4 June 2011 }}</ref> Native animal populations have been very badly affected, with the extinction of at least 10 species attributed to the spread of foxes.<ref name=ACF1/> Fox hunting with hounds is mainly practised in the east of Australia.  In the state of [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]] there are thirteen hunts, with more than 1000 members between them.<ref name=theage>{{cite news|work=The Age|title=It's the thrill not the kill, they say|url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Its-the-thrill-not-the-kill-they-say/2005/03/19/1111086058304.html?from=moreStories|date=20 March 2005|access-date=2 November 2007 | location=Melbourne}}</ref> Fox hunting with hounds results in around 650 foxes being killed annually in Victoria,<ref name=theage/> compared with over 90,000 shot over a similar period in response to a State government bounty.<ref>{{cite news|work=The Age|title=Bounty fails to win ground war against foxes|url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/05/04/1051987602914.html|date=5 May 2003|access-date=2 November 2007 | location=Melbourne}}</ref>
The [[Adelaide Hunt Club]] traces its origins to 1840, just a few years after the colonization of [[South Australia]].