Mooman:
As you live in Belgium signing such a declaration is immaterial, I live in both Norway and the UK, I'd have no objection to signing it.

AggieD:
Pity your kind-hearted neighbour hasn't the heart to wring the necks of her old hens, they'd suffer a much quicker and less painful death than at the hands of the foxes she leaves them for.

Wandering Minstrel:
So all the masks must have been bought from fox poisoners, seeing as how the fox is always torn to pieces, which of course they are not.

So lets consider the alternative proposed "humane" methods of controlling the fox population:
- Poisoning;
Totally indiscriminate, affecting all manner of wild life and domestic pets, so not really to be recommended lightly.
- Trapping;
Death by a snare is a damn sight more cruel than hunting.
- Shooting;
Very complicated, particularly with the gun laws as they exist in the UK today, also very restricted in terms of application, lots of things have to be taken into consideration before you can pull the trigger.
- Gassing;
They already do this for Badgers sometimes with dire consequences for populations, but then when this method is used, control is not the objective, complete erradication is.
- Motor Vehicle;
Road kill, by far the most efficient, provided the drivers who hit the animal have the guts to stop and make sure it is dead, very few do.

By the way would there be a season for such activies or would they proceed on an all-year round basis? The Huntsman at least lets the fox breed. Looking at the above from the foxes perspective - I'd go for signing the declaration any day compared to the alternatives myself, my mate or her cubs would have to face.

I particularly do not like poisoning, while still at school a pal of mine and myself found a vixen who had been poisoned, her cubs had come out in search of her. When we found them one of the cubs was just barely alive, my pal who lived on a farm brought it up as a pet - for ages the fox thought it was a sheep dog. The only thing he always had to be very careful about was making sure he was shut up securely at night. Lived to a ripe old age and died in its sleep.