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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.

Mink Hunts Routed North And South

Hunt sabs have been in action against mink hunts at opposite ends of the country this week. On Friday, sabs from across Yorkshire shut down a meet of the Northern Counties Hunt; yesterday, North Dorset sabs confronted the Courtenay Tracy Mink Hounds on the riverbank.

Oh, For Fox Sake – It’s a General Election!

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock (and we wouldn’t blame you!) you’ll know that there’s going to be a General Election on July 4th – a prospect that brings hope of real change to the deeply flawed Hunting Act.

Guilty! Fox Hunter Sentenced For Multiple Animal Cruelty Offences

Greg Baker, huntsman of the Carmarthenshire-based Llandeilo Farmers Hunt, was today sentenced to 20 weeks prison, suspended for 2 years, 150 hours of unpaid work plus a £150 surcharge after being found guilty of causing unnecessary suffering to a number of animals. He did not receive a disqualification. When the RSPCA raided Baker’s squalid property, […]

Artificial Earths: Part Two – The Hunting Season

In Part 1 ‘Artificial Earths; A Year-Round Deception’, we covered the Spring and Summer months, which included the hunt’s preparation work out of season, and the rearing of fox cubs ready for the new hunting season. In Part 2, we will cover the use of artificial earths during the autumn and winter months, which coincides with the hunting season.

Shocking Footage Shows Hunted Stag’s Final Moments After Horrific Chase

On Saturday 20th April 2024, sabs from across the country headed to Exmoor for a national hit on the Devon & Somerset Stag Hounds closing meet. Despite the best efforts of all sabs involved, the hunt tragically killed a stag who they had hunted to exhaustion. What the stag had endured up to this point was the horrific cruelty of stag hunting.

Batchelor Party As Northern Counties Mink Hounds Get Sabbed!

A barn full of old folks in bright waistcoats? A verge full of Sabs in their new black spring outfits? Mink hunt sabbing must be underway!

Stag Hunting: A Marathon Of Cruelty

Last Saturday, multiple sab groups mobilised to disrupt the final meet of the Devon & Somerset Staghounds on Exmoor. While several deer were saved, sabs were unable to prevent the death of one stag who was hunted to exhaustion.