Animal welfare groups yesterday failed to prevent the opening of a week-long "driven hunt" in which European hunters pay to shoot wildlife herded past them. More than 25 Belgian and Dutch hunters took part in the hunt on the farm Braam near the town of Alldays in Limpopo.Taking aim from platforms, hunters can shoot at hundreds of wild animals, including baboons, warthogs and antelope corralled into a stretch of land.If they wound them, specially trained dogs go after the animals and herd them back on the track so they can be shot again.The National Council of SPCAs appealed for the hunt to be stopped. Ainsley Hay, the group's manager of wildlife protection, said it had been trying to obtain a warrant from the magistrate's court in Louis Trichardt to prevent the hunt.She said an indigenous community in the area had claimed the land and was renting it out to "individuals" who were hosting the hunt. It is due to last for a week and hundreds of animals could be killed every day. ..