12th August: The Culmination Of A Year Of Killing – Part 2
In his second article, moorland campaigner and author Bob Berzins takes a detailed look at the hideous array of traps that litter our upland environments.
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Catch up on recent news from the Hunt Saboteurs Association
Horror In The Hills As Stag Hunting Season Begins
Yesterday morning, Mendip and North Dorset Hunt Sabs tried to stop the Quantock Stag Hounds from killing a magnificent stag at the start of the new hunting season.
Deceit And Dishonesty From Hunting’s Discredited Leaders
The British Hound Sports Association (BHSA) is pressing on with plans for ‘Smokescreen Saturday’ which will take place in September. With growing calls for the next Government to close loopholes in the Hunting Act and ban so-called ‘trail hunting,’ the pro-bloodsports lobby group is embarking on a last ditch effort to save their pastime
12th August: The Culmination Of A Year Of Killing – Part 1
In the first of two articles, moorland campaigner and author Bob Berzins looks at the year-round war on wildlife in Britain’s uplands.
HSA And Chris Packham Release Damning Video
The HSA is today urging our supporters to share the first of our hard-hitting election videos. Narrated by Chris Packham, the video attempts the impossible task of distilling the cruelty, criminality and chaos of hunting into just two minutes!
Hunt Saboteurs Association Says “Free Paul Watson!”
The HSA is today urging its thousands of supporters to get behind the campaign to free legendary anti-whaling activist Captain Paul Watson, who has been arrested by Danish police in Nuuk, Greenland.
Double Trouble For Hunters As HSA Summer Campaign Continues
The Hunt Saboteurs Association summer campaign continues, with hunters hit in the East Midlands and East Anglia at the weekend.
Smokescreen Saturday: Hunters To Hold ‘National Trail Hunting Day’
Pro-bloodsports group the British Hound Sports Association (BHSA) claims it will hold a ‘National Trail Hunting Day’ on Saturday 14th September 2024.
Hingham Horror: West Norfolk Foxhounds Guilty Of Illegal Hunting
Right-minded citizens the nation over were shocked and appalled at footage broadcast last year on ITV News of a fox being eviscerated on a family patio by a pack of hounds.
Chris Packham Says: Hounds Off Our Wildlife!
TV conservationist, national treasure and hunt sab supporter, Chris Packham, has written an exclusive article for the Summer 2024 edition of HOWL – originally Hounds Off Our Wildlife – the magazine of the Hunt Saboteurs Association.
Burton Huntsman Charged With Illegal Fox Hunting
As most of our followers are now aware, Neil Burton – huntsman for the Burton Hunt – has been charged under Section One of the Hunting Act 2004 which prohibits a person from hunting a wild mammal with dogs.
Another South Wales Hunt Bites The Dust
News has reached the HSA confirming rumours that South Wales hare hunt, the Monmouthshire & Valley Beagles, have folded.
Hunt Sabs On The March In London!
The Hunt Saboteurs Association was proud to join over 60,000 marchers in central London yesterday to demand that the new government Restore Nature Now. With 350 organisations represented – from Extinction Rebellion to the Bat Conservation Trust – this was the largest march of its kind in history.
Read All About It: Take a Dive into the HSA’s History Book
There’s been so much progress within the anti-hunt movement recently, especially since those infamous Hunting Office webinars. But they haven’t come out of nowhere.
Summer hunt shut down in Staffordshire
The campaign against the mink and otter hunters continues, as hunt sabs shut down a meet of the Dove Valley Mink Hounds yesterday. The hunt met at Cawarden Springs Farm, Rugeley, Staffs and were hunting along the River Trent in the pouring rain when sabs from the Nottingham, Sheffield, Lincoln and West Midlands groups descended. […]
Fox Hunting – Where Do They Stand?
Politicians of all parties frequently state that the issue of fox hunting produces some of their biggest mailbags. In this week of manifesto launches, the HSA takes a quick look at the major party’s positions on hunting.
Getting Away With Murder: North Shropshire Hunt Evade Justice
Almost twenty years after the passing of the Hunting Act, the HSA today releases yet more clear-cut footage of illegal hunting. However, in a familiar sequence of events, the CPS failed to get this compelling case to court.
Notorious Blackmore & Sparkford Vale Hunt Back In Court Again
Four members of the Dorset-based Blackmore & Sparkford Vale Hunt are due to appear at Poole Magistrates Court on Friday 28th June on Hunting Act charges.
And So It Begins: Pointless Badger Cull Starts Up Again Today
June 1st marks the official start of the 2024 supplementary badger cull. This means that innocent badgers will be shot dead from today all the way through till January 31st 2025.
Four Things The Next Government Must Do To End Hunt Cruelty
After much speculation the General Election has finally been called and will take place on 4th July 2024. With this comes a likely change in Government, and the biggest chance yet that the law will be changed to make the Hunting Act 2004 fit for purpose, actually banning the hunting of wild animals with a pack of hounds as it should have done 20 years ago.