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Avian flu is an ever increasing issue. With the “outbreak season” just under way, keepers of large numbers of farmed birds must take precautions to

We’re just over two weeks into the main hunting season, which runs from the end of October through to the end of March or early

Last Wednesday, the HSA published harrowing drone footage – shot by heroic Lake District Hunt Sabs – of the Coniston Foxhounds digging out a fox and ripping her to pieces. At least seven people have been arrested as a result. Today we can reveal that a key representative from the British Hound Sports Association (BHSA), the organisation that supposedly regulates and advocates for legal hunting, was present on the day.

Hundreds of thousands of people have now seen the horrifying video – shot by heroic Lake District Hunt Sabs – of the Coniston Foxhounds digging

Yesterday, hundreds of thousands of people were horrified by the video shot by Lake District Hunt Sabs showing the Coniston Foxhounds digging out a fox

On Saturday 01st of November the Portman Hunt held their opening meet at Manor Farm, Manston, and within ten minutes of leaving the meet hounds

You may have seen recently that police forces all over the country have been posting on their social media accounts about how their rural crime

This morning, Wednesday 29th October, the criminal Fitzwilliam Hunt killed a fox while hunting near Keyston in Cambridgeshire. They met at Manor Farm and spent the morning hunting nearby with sabs in attendance. At approximately 9:30am hounds flushed a fox from a small wood close to the road just southwest of the meet. After a short chase the hounds caught and killed the fox. Sabs had no chance to intervene.

HOWL – the magazine of the Hunt Saboteurs Association – will be hitting the doormats of our thousands of members in the next couple of

From north to south, the last few months have seen many meets of hare-hunting beagle and basset packs sabbed.

Between August and October or November these packs are ‘leveret hunting’ – a secretive pre-season practice where young hounds are entered into the pack and trained against young hares, akin to the better known ‘cubbing’ season carried out by fox hunts.

Last Friday, two East Northants Hunt Sabs were found not guilty of aggravated trespass at St Albans Magistrate Court. The court case followed events at the closing meet of the Cambridgeshire Hunt with Enfield Chace Hunt on March 8th, 2025.