Catch up on recent news from the Hunt Saboteurs Association
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 […]
On Monday 14th May, at Haywards Heath Magistrates Court, 3 Crawley & Horsham Hunt members were found guilty of 5 counts of illegal hunting. 2 were fined £1,000 each and must pay £2,500 each in costs. The third, Andrew Phillis is on holiday but must attend court later for his sentencing. Rachel Holdsworth was found guilty of 2 counts of illegal […]
TWO Cumbrian men have been found guilty by a Sheriff of deliberately hunting foxes and badgers on farmland near Langholm. Ryan Lowe, 30, of Baird Road, Harraby, Carlisle, and 40-year-old Brian Sanderson, of West Lane, Shap, were also found guilty of being in possession of items capable of being used for an offence contrary to […]
The Hunt Saboteurs Association (HSA) has been fighting cruelty to animals since 1963 and relies entirely on the generosity of its members and supporters. We have no paid staff, so every penny donated to the HSA goes exactly where it really counts, the groups saving the lives of hunted animals in the field. If you […]
We have for many years run a Club draw but decided to end this fund raising feature. Fear not, we have an alternative, the weekly Unity Lottery! For just £1 per week you will be allocated a six digit Unity Lottery number, which will remain yours for as long as you wish to keep playing. […]
This photograph shows the aftermath of a viscious attack by members of the Cotswold Vale Hunt on a woman in her 60’s. As we reported back in March, the attack took place when the Woman and her Son took issue with the Hunt tresspassing on their land. A group of twelve men responded by attacking […]
The Welsh Assembly has announced that it’s scrapping its controversial badger cull and will instead carry out a vaccination programme to try and minimise the spread of Bovine TB. The HSA would like to congratulate PAC (Pembrokeshire Against the Cull) and everyone else who has fought tirelessly against this ridiculous cull and we hope that Westminster now follows […]
