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Now that the champagne-induced delirium has started to wear off, it’s time to absorb the full scale of the defeat that was inflicted on fox hunting last Friday. Mark Hankinson – Britain’s leading fox hunter – wasn’t just found guilty, he and the whole hunting world had the book thrown at them by Deputy Chief […]
Master of Foxhounds Association (MFHA) director Mark Hankinson has been found guilty of encouraging others to break the Hunting Act following a three day trial at Westminster Magistrates Court. The court case came about after the HSA exposed online webinars run by the Hunting Office in August last year. The webinars evidence a nationwide conspiracy by hunters […]
The Hunt Saboteurs Association stands in solidarity with Chris Packham whose home was struck by arsonists last Friday night. This latest attack – believed to be the work of hunting or shooting extremists – is just the latest escalation of a terror campaign against Chris and his family. Previous incidents have included death threats and […]
A gamekeeper has been caught trapping birds of prey on a pheasant shoot in Shropshire. Two traps were found in mid-September in woodland near the village of Chelmarsh, just south of Bridgnorth. Footage passed to the HSA shows two homemade wooden traps, both baited with dead pheasants and located inside a pheasant release pen. Shockingly, […]
Hunt Saboteurs Association Press Release 19th September 2021 On Saturday the 18th of September a member of Northants Hunt Sabs was attacked by a member of the notorious Cottesmore Hunt. The sab was thrown off a gate by Kelvin Pestell, who has previous for assaulting sabs. They experienced breathing difficulties and were rushed to hospital where […]
For seven years between 1903 and 1910, the UK was gripped and divided over the issue of the use of animals in medical research. This energy was triggered by the plight of one particular animal, a large brown dog who was reputed to have been spectacularly ill-treated for the purposes of a university medical lecture at University College […]
And so it begins… cub hunting, the disgusting and illegal practice of training new foxhounds to kill fox cubs, is now in full swing across the country. Hunts ride out very early in the morning – when fox scent is strongest – and surround woods or fields with riders to ensure foxes and cubs have […]
Since 2013 the Conservative Government and the National Farmers Union have spearheaded a policy that has led to the barbaric deaths of 140,830 badgers, an almost unimaginable figure. In 2020 alone more than 40,000 badgers were killed in 54 cull zones from Cornwall to Cumbria and from Lincolnshire to Cheshire. Almost the entire South West […]
Background to Beagling There are around 60 packs of beagles in the UK that hunt the brown hare for ‘sport’. Beagles hunt the scent of the hare and kill the poor animal by wearing it down over time. The beagles are followed on foot, so there are no horses involved. Beagling should not be confused […]
In a recent edition of the hunt sab magazine HOWL, we outlined a brief history of the Eastern Counties Mink/Otter hounds (ECMH), and efforts to sabotage them. If that could have been summarised as ‘the rise and fall of the ECMH’ then we’d probably need to entitle this one ‘The fall and fall of the […]
Over 100 hunt sabs have disrupted multiple grouse shoots in the Yorkshire Dales on the prestigious opening day of the grouse shooting season. Despite repeated claims in the media that shoots were either delaying or cancelling their seasons due to low grouse counts we knew that many of them still wouldn’t be able to resist the urge […]
The HSA can reveal that over 24 million pheasants and partridges were imported to the UK in 2020. Shockingly, 24,372,048 of these birds were shipped to shooting estates across the UK last year, despite the national lockdowns severely curtailing much of the shooting season. Factory farms across Europe, in which these ‘gamebirds’ suffer in tiny […]
From the late summer harvest onwards, as soon as local conditions allow, until the beginning of the “season” for fox hunting, hunts will be engaged in cub hunting as often as they are able. For some packs this could be every single day and is a side of hunting very rarely seen by the public […]
Exeter Magistrates’ Court this week heard the verdict in the trial of two terriermen of the Eggesford Hunt. Nathan Bowes and Seward Folland stood trial on 5 and 6 July 2021 for unlawfully interfering with a badger sett. Exeter court today found the pair guilty on all counts. The incident took place on 23 November […]
The problem with telling a lie is that you often have to cover it up with another, then another and another. Before you know it, you have a whole pack of lies running out of control! This is exactly the situation the Masters of Foxhounds Association (MFHA) and the Countryside Alliance (CA) have got themselves […]
The Larsen trap is a cage made of wire mesh and a wooden or metal frame in which a live bird is used to lure in other birds (this works at the times of the year when corvids are territorial, between spring and autumn. The distressed prisoner in the Larsen will attract the resident birds […]
The Hunt Saboteurs Association are calling for a boycott of AXA insurance due to their involvement with the hunting community. As first revealed by Hunting Leaks, AXA provide legal fee insurance for every fox, hare and stag hunt in the UK. This policy covers Hunting Act offences and violence towards hunt saboteurs. Every time an […]
The Hunt Saboteurs Association are pleased to be partnered with the abillionveg app to promote vegan food and to raise funds for hunt sabotage! You can help us raise funds by following these simple steps: 1) Download the abillionvegapp onto your smartphone2) Setup a login3) Start to review any and all vegan food you buy […]
Australia: Foster’s lager, barbeques, beaches, and larrikinisms. Well, at least that’s what is sold to you. Steve Irwin and Crocodile Dundee. Amazing wildlife found only in Australia. What they don’t tell you, and is sadly not restricted to Australia, is that our government does not care about our wildlife. We’ve battled debilitating drought and exhausting […]
HOWL – the magazine of the Hunt Saboteurs Association – will be hitting the doormats of our thousands of members in the next week or so. As usual, it is packed with news from the front line in the fight against all blood sports. This forty-page edition features articles on a huge range of topics […]
