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The fall-out from the leaked Hunting Office webinars has claimed yet another victim – the Hunting Office itself. The totally discredited body is to be rebranded as the ‘British Hound Sports Association’ (BHSA) After 17 years of dishonesty and evasion, do they really think that removing the word ‘hunting’ from their title will convince people […]
Hunt saboteurs have been in action this weekend to stop mink and otter hunts at opposite ends of the country. The Northern Counties Hunt were rumbled near Selby, North Yorkshire, while the Courtenay Tracy Hounds were found in the depths of Somerset’s Chew Valley. Both packs headed home when confronted by large numbers of dedicated […]
WARNING: Distressing footage showing foxhounds being shot Horrific and previously unseen footage reveals the true extent of the hound killings at the Carmarthenshire Hunt. Filmed as part of Ecotricity’s investigation into dead animals being used to create electricity, the footage once again proves that hounds are treated by hunts as no more than expendable tools. […]
Most people celebrate our efforts to save mink and otters from the cruelty of illegal hunting. However, we occasionally receive ill-informed comments about how animal rights activists were responsible for introducing American mink to the UK. Last week – after four mink hunts were sabotaged in a single weekend – an unusually articulate hunter replied […]
Hunt sabs across the country have been in action against the mink and otter hunters this weekend. For the third Saturday in a row, the Dove Valley ‘Mink’ Hounds had their kennels blockaded by multiple sab groups. Specialist drone units were deployed to confirm that the hounds never left the kennels. Further west, other sab […]
This week the HSA launches an online archive of its magazine, HOWL. First published in 1973, HOWL has been in continuous production ever since, making it the longest-running – and best – animal rights magazine in the world. Over 120 issues have been painstakingly scanned and – in the case of fragile older editions – […]
WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES AND DISTRESSING CONTENT North Dorset Hunt Sabs have been in action against the Quantocks Staghounds in Somerset this week. Despite their brave efforts, sabs were unable to save a young stag who was remorselessly hunted to exhaustion. As is standard practice in stag hunting, experienced hounds were used to separate the wretched […]
The HSA can exclusively reveal that just under 24 million pheasants and partridges were imported into the UK in 2021 to be killed on shoots throughout the country. This makes up roughly half of all such birds released into the UK countryside. DEFRA figures show that 23,990,188 birds were shipped in from factory farms in […]
As spring arrives and the foxhunting season comes to an end, we might hope for some reprieve for foxes. Unfortunately, this doesn’t happen. The ‘off’ season is, in fact, one of the busiest times for the hunt terriermen as they prepare a new set of victims for the autumn. Fox hunting has never been about […]
Origins in Otter Hunting Mink hunting has its roots in the ancient summer bloodsport of otter hunting. This cruel activity flourished in the Victorian and Edwardian eras, but the hunters had run out of otters to kill by the 1970s. Habitat destruction, hunting, and the use of DDT pesticides had driven the species to the […]
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