Chris Packham Slams Cruel Lake District Fox Hunt!

The recent conviction of packs such as the Stowe School Beagles, the Pipewell Foot Beagles and the Dorset & Somerset Bassets have highlighted the ongoing issue of illegal hare hunting. But far from being deterred by their paltry fines, these and other packs will shortly be beginning their programme of

In 2023, the UN released General Comment No. 26. This document updates the famous UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. It explicitly states children must be kept safe from witnessing violence, including physical or psychological harm inflicted on animals. Yet every week across the UK children are taken

What is cubbing?Cub hunting or ‘cubbing’ is the highly secretive and illegal process by which new hounds are trained to hunt and kill foxes. Cubbing is visibly different from typical fox hunting as the hunt will appear to be more static, with much less riding across open country. As soon

Guest post by Wiltshire Hunt Sabs: In July, after being alerted alerted to illegal practises at a local shoot, they paid a visit to the Stockton Shoot in Wiltshire and what they found was truly horrific – a bonfire full of dead charred birds, set next to the industrial sized

With the current parliamentary reshuffles going on, the HSA shooting team takes a look at the influence of shooting interests in parliament in recent times. As has been widely covered in various HSA exposes, as well as by Animal Aid and more recently End Bird Shooting the pheasant and partridge

The Stowe School Beagles – dubbed “cruel and illegal” by Northamptonshire Police – have won a major prize at hunting’s showcase event, the Festival of Hounds.

In less than a few weeks the stag hunting season will begin, with the three remaining stag hunts in the south west, heading out to terrorise and kill mature autumn stags. This will continue until the end of October when they switch their sights to hinds. The autumn stag hunting

Recently, we highlighted a The Times article which exposed a plot by the current chair of the British Hound Sports Association (BHSA), Viscount William Waldorf Astor III, to “hoodwink” – or, to put it more plainly, deceive – government ministers over the forthcoming trail hunting policy. According to the uncovered