Footage Shows Hunt Blocking Badger Setts To Stop Foxes Escape
HSA is today releasing covert footage captured of members of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn’s Hunt (aka the Wynnstay Hunt) blocking active badger setts ahead of a hunting day.
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‘National Trail Hunting Day’ Organised by Convicted Fox Hunter
One of the key organisers of National Trail Hunting Day – or Smokescreen Saturday, as it has come to be known – has multiple convictions under the Hunting Act.
Death at Dawn: The Horror of ‘Cubbing’ Begins
Hunts have already been caught out, sneaking out at the crack of dawn to participate in one of their dirty little secrets – cubbing – otherwise known as cub hunting, or dressed up by the hunters as ‘autumn hunting’.
Police Investigate After Horse Hit at Hunt Kennels
Police are investigating after hunt sabs released disturbing footage of a man kicking and punching a horse at a hunt kennels on Saturday.
Trail Hunting: A Pack Of Lies
With the Labour Government committed to banning ‘trail hunting’, the HSA takes a detailed look at this activity and how it has been used for almost twenty years to circumvent the law.
‘Struggling With Venue’: Smokescreen Saturday Descends Into Farce
British Hound Sports Association’s showpiece event, National Trail Hunting Day, is descending into farce.
Fox Hunters Seeking Protected Characteristic Status is Insulting to Genuine Minorities
Following her recent demolition of Hunting Kind’s Ed Swales on Good Morning Britain, the HSA is delighted to feature a guest piece by writer, presenter and activist Chantelle Lunt.
Run Out Of Stean: Stean Grouse Shoot Gets Sabbed
Following on from Monday’s highly successful sabotage of the Wemmergill Estate’s first grouse shoot of the season, sabs were once again out taking action.
Hardened Hunter To Organise Smokescreen Saturday
As predicted, the Labour Party won the General Election by quite a landslide. Within Labour’s manifesto was a promise to close the loopholes which have allowed hunts to continue to hunt live quarry ever since the passing of the Hunting Act nearly twenty years ago.
Sabs silence guns on the Wemmergill estate
Saboteurs from across the country headed to the North Pennines to stop the guns on the first day of the grouse shooting season, known by animal abusers as the ‘Glorious Twelfth’.
12th August: The Culmination Of A Year Of Killing – Part 2
In his second article, moorland campaigner and author Bob Berzins takes a detailed look at the hideous array of traps that litter our upland environments.
Horror In The Hills As Stag Hunting Season Begins
Yesterday morning, Mendip and North Dorset Hunt Sabs tried to stop the Quantock Stag Hounds from killing a magnificent stag at the start of the new hunting season.
Deceit And Dishonesty From Hunting’s Discredited Leaders
The British Hound Sports Association (BHSA) is pressing on with plans for ‘Smokescreen Saturday’ which will take place in September. With growing calls for the next Government to close loopholes in the Hunting Act and ban so-called ‘trail hunting,’ the pro-bloodsports lobby group is embarking on a last ditch effort to save their pastime
12th August: The Culmination Of A Year Of Killing – Part 1
In the first of two articles, moorland campaigner and author Bob Berzins looks at the year-round war on wildlife in Britain’s uplands.
HSA And Chris Packham Release Damning Video
The HSA is today urging our supporters to share the first of our hard-hitting election videos. Narrated by Chris Packham, the video attempts the impossible task of distilling the cruelty, criminality and chaos of hunting into just two minutes!
Hunt Saboteurs Association Says “Free Paul Watson!”
The HSA is today urging its thousands of supporters to get behind the campaign to free legendary anti-whaling activist Captain Paul Watson, who has been arrested by Danish police in Nuuk, Greenland.
Double Trouble For Hunters As HSA Summer Campaign Continues
The Hunt Saboteurs Association summer campaign continues, with hunters hit in the East Midlands and East Anglia at the weekend.
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.