The Hunt Saboteurs Association are today celebrating the complete abandonment of the Alston Hare Week hunting festival. On their fifth consecutive day in the field, sabs were greeted with the sight of dejected hunters leaving Alston and beginning the long drive south. This is a total victory for hunt saboteurs, who have prevented any […]
Hunt saboteurs are to use aerial drones to coordinate disruption of a hare-hunting ‘festival’ taking place in Cumbria this week. During the Alston Hare Week, which starts Monday, October 13,hunters with packs of beagle hounds -bred and trained to hunt hares-will travel from across the country to hunt the moors above the market town […]
The first night of the badger culls began last night with Hunt Saboteurs out in full force in their hundreds across both zones doing their level best to stop the cullers from killing any badgers. In Gloucestershire at about Midnight, a couple of experienced Hunt Saboteurs came across a badger trapped in a […]
A hunt saboteur has been rushed to hospital after being ridden down by a member of the Blackmore and Sparkford Vale Fox Hunt during an evening cub hunting meet at the hunt kennels in Charlton Horethorne, somerset. Two hunt saboteurs were standing on a public road watching the hunt in a field when the attacker […]
Recent reports have confirmed what hunt saboteurs already knew – the marksmen shooting badgers in the government culls were marauding across the countryside, trespassing on land that was not part of the cull with high powered rifles. In theory these hired killers were subject to stringent rules and regulations but more and more […]
Andy Bull, terrierman of the Meynell & South Staffordshire Fox Hounds, has received a police caution for assaulting a hunt saboteur from Manchester in February 2014 at Kingstone, Staffordshire. Sabs were intervening as the hunt attempted to illegally chase a fox when Mr Bull became aggressive, grabbing a sab around the throat and attempting to swing […]
More than half the minkhunts in Britain have been sabotaged so far this summer. Saturday 9th August saw hunt saboteurs disrupt a joint meet of the 3 Counties and Teme Valley Minkhounds at their meet in Aston Cantlow, Warwickshire. This took the number of packs sabotaged this summer to eleven, over 50% of the estimated […]
This Saturday, 28th of June, the Association of Masters of Harriers & Beagles, the people who organise hare hunts across the UK, are holding their Annual General Meeting. Hunting for hare and foxes with hounds is not only illegal, but also very cruel. The HSA believe that these hunts have not stopped hunting hare and […]
Hunt saboteurs were out in force this weekend as the HSA stepped up its campaign against the summer bloodsport of mink hunting. In the Midlands dozens of sabs gathered at the kennels of the Dove Valley Minkhounds whilst in Devon a further 40 sabs attended a meet of the Culmstock Minkhounds at Exebridge. Both packs […]
A sab from West Midlands Hunt Saboteurs has finally had the case brought against her for breaching the NFU High Court Injunction dropped. She was the only person in the country to be taken to court for breaching the injunction that was linked with the badger cull last year. The decision was taken by […]
The terrierman of the York and Ainsty South Fox Hunt, and two other men, have been charged with interfering with a badger sett. The charges stem from an incident in December last year when members of Sheffield and Doncaster hunt saboteurs came upon the men digging out a fox at Escrick Park, near Selby North […]
Hunt saboteurs have stopped the seal slaughter in Gardenstown but it continues elsewhere in Scotland. On Sunday 11th May a lone female sab was observing salmon nets owned by seal killers Scottish Wild Salmon Company at Usan, south of Montrose. Netting at the weekend breaches licence conditions, and the nets should not have been in […]
On Saturday the 10th May over 60 hunt saboteurs successfully sabotaged two mink hunts in the Midlands. A blockade of the Dove Valley Mink hounds kennels stopped their days illegal activities from even starting. One van of sabs stayed at their kennels to ensure they didn’t try and sneak out and the rest headed for […]
Hunt saboteurs have been in action twice this bank holiday weekend against the Devon-based Culmstock Mink Hounds. On Saturday 3rd May 50 sabs descended on their meet on the River Yarty near Chard and brought hunting to an immediate halt. A convoy of sab vehicles spent the rest of the day pursuing the hunt’s hound van through the Devonshire […]
The joint operation between hunt saboteurs and Sea Shepherd against the seal cull in Scotland continues to save lives. The Scottish Wild Salmon Company, which announced last week that it was going to stop shooting seals at Gardenstown due to pressure from sabs and SSUK, has now removed all its nets from the area […]
The Hunt Saboteurs Association (HSA) is pleased to announce its affiliation to the Anti-fascist network (AFN). The HSA has always had a policy of inclusion, welcoming anyone into our ranks regardless of race, creed, gender, religion or sexuality, and has been forced over the years to confront and exclude people who have been proved to […]
BBC Scotland are reporting that the slaughter of seals in, and around, Gardenstown Harbour in the North East of Scotland has been abandoned due to pressure from hunt saboteurs and Sea Shepherd. The Scottish Wild Salmon Company was killing the animals to prevent them eating the salmon that they wished to catch and kill for […]
Members of the HSA have just returned from Scotland where they have been involved in stopping the shooting of seals by fishing companies. They have been busy mapping the location of Salmon nets used by the Scottish Wild Salmon Company in, and around, Gamrie Bay, Aberdeenshire. Since arriving in the area hunt saboteurs have ranged […]
Press Release 13th March 2014 On Boxing day 2012 at the meet of the South Down & Eridge fox hunt, the driver of the South Coast Hunt Sabs was the subject of a vicious and sustained attacked by supporters of the hunt. The groups Land Rover windscreen was smashed, the door bent back on […]
Hunt Saboteurs Association Press Release 23rd February 2014 On 25th February 2012 members of West Midlands Hunt Saboteurs and Northampton Hunt Saboteurs attended a meet of Otis Ferry’s South Shropshire Foxhunt at the Mytton and Mermaid public house in Atcham near Shrewsbury. The assault The attached film shows the totally unprofessional and biased approach the police took during this […]
