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.
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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.
Humberside Police To The Back Of The Class!
Following Channel 4’s recent national news coverage of the infamous ‘secret protocol’ between Warwickshire Police and the Warwickshire Hunt – together with a looming General Election and a stronger ban in Scotland – the enforceability of the Hunting Act for local police forces has very much been a hot topic.
Fox Hunting In Scotland – Jed And Buried?
Glasgow Hunt Saboteurs report on their first season under new hunting law in Scotland.
Blackmore & Sparkford Vale Hunt Member Guilty of ABH
Last week, sabs from North Dorset spent three consecutive days in Bournemouth Crown Court giving evidence and victim statements. On Thursday 4th April, a jury unanimously found Charlie Mayo, a member of the Blackmore & Sparkford Vale Hunt (BSV), guilty of Actual Bodily Harm.
Artificial Earths: A Year Round Deception
The use of artificial earths by hunts has been well documented by the Hunt Saboteurs Association. This is the practice of building underground chambers for foxes and in particular fox cubs, so that the hunt can keep a regular supply of quarry to hunt. Like so many other hunting traditions, this did not stop when hunting with hounds was banned in 2005.
Hunters Take To The Water
With the fox and hare hunting now ending for the season, a hardcore of bloodsports enthusiasts are about to take to watercourses to follow their summer hunts, and hunt sabs are poised to stop them!
Avon Vale Hunt – Keeping Magistrates Busy!
More drama this week as the Avon Vale implosion is still being dragged out before the courts. This time, it was the turn of Tom Ledbury, an Avon Vale Hunt terrierman, who was sentenced this week to a 12 month community order requiring him to carry out 240 hours of unpaid work, for his role in a video which surfaced last year following raids conducted by RSPCA and police officers around the country including hunt kennels and the homes of ‘terriermen’.