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Otters Under Threat From Hunters

The HSA is the only group to oppose mink and otter hunting where it matters – on the riverbank.

Blean and Gone: Another Hare Hunt Closes Down!

The Blean Beagles – a Kent-based hare hunt – has closed down following pressure from local hunt saboteurs.

Leveret Hunting: So Horrible It Doesn’t Exist!

It is less well known that there are around 60 packs of beagles in the UK who hunt the brown hare for ‘sport’.

Cruelty and Illegal Practices Uncovered at Nottinghamshire Game Farm

Shocking new footage passed onto the HSA reveals extreme cruelty and an alarming lack of biosecurity at a UK game farm.

Hunters Release Terrified ‘Bagged’ Fox In Front Of Hounds

Sickening footage passed to ITV News by the Hunt Saboteurs Association appears to show Somerset’s Seavington Hunt releasing a ‘bagged’ fox in front of the hounds

Hunt Sabs Mobilise Against The Cub Hunters!

Hunt saboteurs have begun the gruelling fightback against cub hunting, one of the hunting world’s most sordid secrets.

‘Beefy’ Botham Out For A Duck As Sabs Storm Peak District Shoots

Lord Ian ‘Beefy’ Botham is amongst the many grouse shooters heading home tonight with an empty bag, as sabs continue their rolling action across the north of England. Botham’s Peak District shoot was located in the nick of time. A line of ‘beaters’ – who use flags and whistles to scare terrified birds towards the […]

No Ifs, No Butts: Shooters Shafted On Glorious Twelfth!

On the first day of the grouse shooting season, hunt saboteurs have shut down a huge driven shoot in the Yorkshire Dales. HSA spotting teams were on patrol from early morning across vast swathes of upland England. As expected, those in the Peak District drew a blank: shooters there have learnt its best to stay […]

Hunt Sabs In Action Against Fox Cub Hunters!

Yesterday, Wednesday 9th August, hunt saboteurs disrupted the first fox cub hunt of the new season.Acting on a tip-off, Kent sabs followed the East Kent with West Street Hunt hound van to a meet at Etchinghill, near Folkestone. The hounds were repeatedly drawn through woods likely to contain cubs, but with sabs deploying their drone […]

Criminal Hunters Receive Light Touch From Their Friends On The Bench

Yesterday a terrier man and a gamekeeper (the difference is really just semantics) were both sentenced for extreme animal cruelty. Paul O’Shea, a terrier man with the East Essex Hunt, was handed an 18 week prison sentence suspended for a year and banned from keeping dogs for 5 years. His crime was to capture and […]

West Midlands Hunt Sabs Targeted By Thames Valley Police

During the latter part of the 2021/22 hunting season, West Midlands Hunt Saboteurs put a stop to the Warwickshire Beagles illegal activities four weeks in a row. Instead of packing up, they chose to hunt on and were filmed chasing hares on five separate occasions. After having the later part of their hunting season wrecked, […]

The HSA… It’s Come A Long Way

Next year, the Hunt Saboteurs Association celebrates its 60th anniversary. It’s fitting, then, that a veteran hunt sab recently acquired a huge archive of HSA material that had him reflecting on just how far we’ve come in the fight against hunting. “I was recently contacted by a long-lost member of the HSA Committee who had […]

Hankinson Appeal Fails To Blow Away The Smokescreen

Britain’s leading huntsman, Mark Hankinson, has won his appeal against his conviction for encouraging others to hunt foxes. The judge accepted that “someone listening to his words might well have taken the view that he was encouraging illegal hunting,” but decided that the criminal threshold for proving intent had not been met. In reaching this […]

Fox Hunting’s New ‘Regulators’ Fall At First Hurdle

Two weeks on from East Essex Hunt terrierman Paul O’Shea pleading guilty to serious Hunting Act and Animal Welfare charges, there is a deafening silence from hunting’s new ‘regulatory body’ the British Hound Sports Association (BHSA). The BHSA claims to be a replacement for the wholly discredited Hunting Office, whose reputation was destroyed by the […]

Hunting Office Rebrand? This Astor Be A Joke!

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 […]

Mink Hunts Routed North And South

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 […]

Nine Foxhounds Shot Dead in Forty Minutes

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. […]

Time To Rethink The Mink

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 […]

A Long Hot Summer For The Otter Hunters

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 […]

HSA Launches HOWL Magazine Archive

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 – […]