Yesterday marked the first major hunting day since national media coverage of the leaked hunting webinars. Our exposé had a major effect on hunt behaviour with many packs meeting early in an unsuccessful bid to avoid sabs. Highlights included the Cambridgeshire with Enfield Chace sending their hounds home at first sight of sabs, and at […]
“Now you know more about hunting than the saboteurs or the courts will know but what it will do is create that smokescreen or that element of doubt that we haven’t deliberately hunted a fox…”
Hunt Saboteurs Association News Release 21st November 2020 A vehicle belonging to South Coast Hunt Saboteurs was lifted up in the air on the spikes of a JCB, risking the life of the occupants, whilst sabs were intervening at a wildfowl shoot that was taking place despite the national Covid lockdown. Members of the shooting […]
Hunt Saboteurs Association News Release 2nd November 2020 The Hunting Office have announced that all registered hunts in England must cease hunting from Wednesday ahead of the second national lock down. In a confidential memo sent out to all Masters, chairmen and secretaries of fox, hare and deer hunts on Sunday they wrote: “Further to the […]
Hunt Saboteurs Association News Release 21st October 2020 On Saturday the 17th October a lone member of Glasgow Hunt Saboteurs was ambushed and attacked by members of the Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire Foxhunt. The group had just finished a successful day sabbing the hunt, ensuring no foxes were killed, and were waiting for a pick up […]
Hunt Saboteurs Association News Release 4th September 2020 Mark Vincent and Ian Parkinson have abandoned their appeal over the sentence they received for releasing a captive fox to be hunted by the Kimblewick Hunt. The pair had received 12 week prison sentences, suspended for 1 year, and community service after being found guilty of keeping […]
On Wednesday the 12th August over 100 sabs descended on the Northern Peak District to disrupt the Glorious 12th, the traditional start of the grouse shooting season. Appropriate social distancing measures were observed to ensure we kept ourselves and local communities safe whilst doing everything we could to disrupt the shooters. After several […]
Hunt Saboteurs Association News Release 2nd August 2020 We’re delighted to hear that both the Ystrad Taf Fechan hunt in South Wales and Mr Elliott’s Harriers in Staffordshire have folded. After 40 years the Ystrad Taf Fechan have had their kennels sold out from underneath them and have failed to find a viable […]
We are disappointed today to find out that the CPS have decided not to press charges against the Barlow Hunt after they killed a fox on 17th December 2019. The Barlow hosted a joint meet with the North Shropshire hunt at Sydnope Hall Farm, near Matlock, Derbyshire. The hunt had visited land owned by […]
The Hunt Saboteurs Association can reveal the awful conditions at one of the UK’s largest game farms. At Hy Fly, located in the Lancashire town of Preesall near Fleetwood, tens of thousands of pheasants and partridges used for breeding are confined to tiny wire cages to supply the shooting industry with birds to be used […]
The Hunt Saboteurs Association can reveal that one of West Mercia Police’s wildlife crime officers, PC Gerry Plant, is a keen hunter and his Facebook friends list contains many animal abusers. Among them is Tony O’Brien (also known as Tony Smith). O’Brien is a well known fox digger and a serving police officer’s association with […]
The pheasant and partridge shooting industry is suffering a severe blow due to the current lockdown and social distancing guidelines issued by the government. The HSA has received reports of shoots across the UK cancelling shoot dates, with many even writing off their whole upcoming seasons as a result of the coronavirus crisis. The […]
Mark Vincent and Ian Parkinson have been given 12 week prison sentences, suspended for 1 year, and community service after being found guilty of keeping a fox captive and inflicting suffering upon it in breach of the Animal Welfare Act. Both men were employed by the Kimblewick Hunt at the time of the offence on […]
The HSA can reveal that Tory MP and Leader of the House of Commons, Jacob Rees-Mogg, has recently cancelled his membership of a controversial hunt group. Rees-Mogg has been a paying subscriber to the Chilmark & Clifton Foot Beagles for about a decade, but has recently decided not to renew his subscription. Like […]
Hunt Saboteurs Association News Release 30th October 2019 Mark Vincent and Ian Parkinson have been found guilty of keeping a fox captive and inflicting suffering upon it in breach of the Animal Welfare Act. Both men were employed by the Kimblewick Hunt at the time of the offence on 1st January this year. The trial took place […]
Hunt Saboteurs Association News Release 23rd October 2019 Chris Amatt, ex-huntsman of the Thurlow Hunt, appeared at Ipswich Crown Court this week to appeal his conviction for illegal hunting that he received in March this year. The prosecution used evidence gathered by Beds and Bucks and North Cambs Hunt Sabs. However it transpired that […]
Hunt Saboteurs Association News Release 22nd October 2019 We’re delighted to hear that the Tredegar Farmers Fox Hunt in South Wales have disbanded. They were sabbed on several occasions last season by South Wales Hunt Saboteurs who reported a spectacular lack of support for the hunt, on one occasion only having three riders out. Their […]
Hunt Saboteurs Association News Release 9th October 2019 After six long years of an unrelenting and unstoppable campaign by West Midlands Hunt Saboteurs the 200 year old Atherstone Hunt have finally thrown in the towel and folded. The sabs have faced harassment, extreme provocation and regular violence from those associated with the Atherstone Hunt. They’ve […]
The HSA has received a hotline tip-off that a number of English beagle packs are travelling to Scotland at the invitation of a recently-convicted Scottish fox hunt. The hare-hunting beagle packs have been invited by the notorious Lee Peters, new huntsman of the Jed Forest Hunt. These “hunting holiday” are designed to train the […]
Word has reached the HSA that three hare-hunting beagle packs are to fold. The Claro Beagles, the Vectis Beagles and the North Warwickshire Beagles are all set to close this season due to lack of support. This leaves just 55 beagle packs operating in the UK. These hunts use packs of beagles to hunt […]
