Catch up on recent news from the Hunt Saboteurs Association
At our AGM in June 2012 a spokesperson from the campaign group “Stop the Cull” addressed those of us present on their belief that the cull could only be successfully sabotaged with a lot of help from hunt sab groups. We were told that we’d have to do thousands of hours of preparatory sett surveying, […]
Like your favourite photo and the group that submitted it will win £100! Competition ends 31st of March 2014. Click here to view the photos. Post by Hunt Saboteurs.
On Saturday 22nd March the Wye Beagles, in Kent, held their last ever meet, bringing to an end 67 years of hare hunting. Hunt Saboteurs Association Press Officer Lee Moon commented “The demise of the Wye Beagles comes as no surprise to hunt sabs. Since we started targeting the hare hunts three years ago we’ve […]
We the ‘Hunt Saboteurs Association’ are all about direct action in the field, indeed we are the only organisation that directly saves the hunted animal, whether that is a fox or a pheasant or more recently badgers during the cull. Sabs for over 50 years have intervened and disrupted countless hunts saving many thousands of […]
On Saturday the 15th March a group of over 40 hunt saboteurs attended the Sinnington Hunt’s final meet of the season at Kirkdale, North Yorkshire. The hunt was targeted in response to the violent assault of a lone hunt monitor two weeks earlier which left him requiring x-rays. His camcorder was stolen and his mobile phone […]
A leaked report by the Independent Expert Panel (IEP) has now confirmed what we already knew – the trial badger cull was cruel and didn’t work. The IEP was appointed by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) to evaluate the effectiveness, humaneness and safety of the Gloucestershire and Somerset pilots. The leaked […]
In the past 6 months the Hunt Saboteurs Association has donated well over £30,000 to local saboteur groups and we have seen the formation of 6 new local groups – Kernow, Dorset, Somerset, North Wales, North Norfolk and Borders. Hunt saboteurs from across the country were also instrumental in the failure of the Government’s badger cull. […]
On Boxing Day 1963 four people sabbed the South Devon hunt in what was the first official act of sabotage by the Hunt Saboteurs Association. On Saturday 18 January 2014, just over 50 years later, over 100 hunt saboteurs from across Southern England and Wales descended on Dartmoor National Park to sabotage the same hunt. […]
Due to the embarrassment caused to the hunting community this photo has been issued with a take down notice, but in its place we have evidence of animal abuse by George Humfrey of Tiverton Foxhounds. The voices in the video are hunt followers.
To celebrate 50 years of direct action against bloodsport we’ve released a new range of merchandise featuring mugs, t-shirts and cloth badges! Available now at our webshop.
Please support us, we will fight for badgers – what will you do? As most people will be aware the Government’s pilot badger culls have begun in West Somerset, with Gloucestershire to follow imminently. We have been active via our locally run Hunt Saboteur groups in mapping setts in the cull zones and will now […]
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POWA Press Release 22nd November 2012 A young vixen owes her life to the quick thinking and courage of a hunt monitor who literally dived in and grabbed her from amongst the hounds that were just about to maul her to death.. The young woman was out monitoring the Old Berks Fox Hounds last […]
These Hounds Off notices are for anyone who has made their property into a hunt-free wildlife sanctuary. Please print them off, laminate, and post them somewhere prominent. If you can get your neighbours, family and friends to do the same then so much the better! For more information visit www.huntsabs.org.uk/hounds-off Click the image below for […]
Since September 2011, hundreds of acres of land are known to have been made out of bounds to bloodsports, affecting dozens of Hunts nationwide. In reality the figure could be much higher because we have no system for monitoring Warning Off emails and letters sent by individuals. Hounds Off encourages autonomous action. We deliberately make […]
The Con-Demn coalition appears determined to push through their immoral, un-scientific cull of badgers this autumn causing the death of thousands of these innocent creatures and creating deep divisions in the countryside. Dairy farmers, rather than take responsibility for their animals and invest in proper and rigorous bTB screening, have instead decided to try and […]
PRESS RELEASE FROM PROTECT OUR WILD ANIMALS (POWA) Heythrop Hunt Supporter Found Guilty Of Criminal Damage A car salesman who rides with the HEYTHROP HUNT, Thomas Edward Hastings Macfarlane of Wootton, Woodstock, Oxfordshire was found guilty of criminal damage at Banbury Magistrates court on 12th September 2012. Whilst Hunt Monitor Mrs Judy Gilbert of High […]
Following last week’s attempt by Surrey Union riders to knock people down and issue death threats, six sab groups convened for a return visit to show we will not be intimidated. The groups from South Coast, Brighton, Croydon, Chicester and Guildford descended on the Surrey Union kennels at 5 am and waited for the hunt […]
