Cruelty, Chaos And Criminality: Another Fox Hunting Season Gets Under Way
It’s just one week into the 2022-23 season and fox hunts are already dangerously out of control.
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Royal Artillery Hunt – a licence to kill
Hunt saboteurs and monitors have recorded a long list of incidents of hunting, violence, licence breaches on MOD land.
What to do if you see a hunt?
If you were out for a walk in the countryside and came across this stomach churning scene, what would you do?
Hunt Saboteurs Fight The Brutal Badger Cull
Since 2013, the Conservative Government and the National Farmers Union have spearheaded apolicy that has led to the death of 175,000 badgers, a third of the national population. This has ledto local extinctions in parts of the Southwest. In 2021 there were 61 cull zones across the UK, in which thekillers slaughtered 33,687 badgers. Unsurprisingly, […]
FOX HUNTING EXTREMISTS ATTACK SAB VEHICLE
Norwich Hunt Saboteurs have had one of their vehicles trashed in a cowardly night-time attack.
Absolute Scum: Seavington Huntsman Admits Hunting ‘Bagged’ Fox
Benedict Hood, huntsman of the Somerset-based Seavington Hunt, has pleaded guilty to hunting a ‘bagged’ fox that was dropped in front of the hounds. His five-strong gang of terriermen, who also participated in the abuse, appear to have got away with their crimes. Hood’s conviction follows a police investigation after footage of the incident was […]
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 […]