The BBHPS promotes and encourages all types of interest in hares, except their persecution for so called 'sport'. Education is an important part of the BBHPS ethos. We aim to see constructive enjoyment of hares and other wildlife established as a tradition here in the 21st century. This is consistent with the caring, compassionate society in which we are alleged to be living. Among our members and supporters we have artists specialising in hares, researchers into hare ecology, journalists, vets, museum curators and many others. The Society also takes an interest in the other species of hare in Great Britain, the mountain hare Lepus timidus and the Irish hare Lepus timidus hibernicus, which is a sub-species of the mountain hare. Some of our members specialise in studying specific problems which hares face in a human dominated world. Capture myopathy, for example, is a previously little studied condition related to the effects of stress - to which hares are particularly susceptible. Often arising after prolonged chases or capture, the condition can lead to the death of the animal sooner or later - sometimes after months. BBHPS member Mike Rendle is taking a special interest in capture myopathy and has published a paper on it. But whatever our particular interests in hares we all share the view that they are an important part of Britain’s wildlife heritage which everyone has a right to enjoy in the peace and tranquillity of the countryside.