Direct action saving animals lives – caught on camera
Mink hunting has its roots in the ancient summer bloodsport of otter hunting. In 1978, the otter was granted protected legal status, despite the best efforts of the hunting lobby.
A lot has been going on up in the Lake District. We’ve seen two well-established sab groups, Lancashire Hunt Sabs and Cumbria Hunt Sabs merging to form one super group: Lake District Hunt Sabs.
With the groups joining forces, we’ve seen more of the lesser known Cumbrian hunts receiving attention – packs like the Lunsdale Foxhounds, Coniston Foxhounds, North Cumberland Hunt and the Eskdale & Ennerdale Foxhounds are finding themselves regularly sabbed, along with hunts you may have already heard o such as the Blencathra Foxhounds and Melbreak Foxhounds. The Lake District has some of the most challenging terrain for sabbing. We asked the newly formed Lake District Hunt Sabs the reasons behind the two groups merging, and this is what they told us….
On Saturday 15th March, West Midlands Hunt Saboteurs and Three Counties Hunt Saboteurs attended a Croome & West Warwickshire Hunt meet at Marshall’s Transport Ltd on Pershore Airfield, Throckmorton.
After hunting behind Evesham Crematorium – whilst a service was in progress – the hunt moved on north and the hounds were put into a barn at Middle Buildings which is part of Hill Court Farm. With the hounds hunting through the farm and the huntsman encouraging the hounds on, a Three Counties Hunt sab nearest to the farm radioed through to West Mids Hunt Sabs that they may have been on a fox and they quickly got the drone up and over the farm.
Warwickshire Hunt member Benjamin Halsall, 24, from Whatcote Road, Shipston- on-Stour, was yesterday found guilty of hunting a wild mammal with dogs after hounds were filmed killing a fox.
Following last week’s bombshell ITV broadcast perhaps the scandal of undercover police despatched into left wing groups is at last getting the attention it deserves. The Undercover Policing Inquiry, the state investigation into the spycops scandal, has just concluded another round of hearings. This latest phase of the inquiry, (Tranche 2) examined the years 1983 […]
Twenty years on from the birth of the Hunting Act, sabs are still defending wildlife.
The 18th of February marked the 20th anniversary of the hunting act coming into force, and even after all this time hunts up and down the country are still continuing as if it never happened.
The Two Bridges hunt club meet is an annual gathering of the four Dartmoor hunts (the Mid Devon, South Devon, Dartmoor, and Spooners & West Dartmoor) that grotesquely commemorates the anniversary of the Hunting Act.
Sabotage (2004) from hurhaj on Vimeo.
West Wales Anti Bloodsports were monitoring the South Pembrokeshire Hunt at Campshill Farm, near Yerbeston, on October 19th 2011. They had been observing the hunt from a distance cross-country, and from a vantage point across fields, see through binoculars that the terriermen are once again digging at a hedge bank or row. They make their […]
A monologue from a loyal member of the South Pembrokeshire Hunt (note his little blue lapel badge). Peppered with threats or hints of violence, he still doesn’t succeed in making the monitor cry – “most women would have been in tears by now”. Monitors of the South Pembrokeshire Hunt frequently come across this kind of […]
Here sabs are preventing an illegal dig-out of a fox which had been hunted into an earth by the hounds of the York & Ainsty South hunt. Sabs stood their ground – taking several punches from the terrier men in the process. The terrier men eventually backed down and left. They returned to the earth […]
To avoid the hunt breaking the law, concerned observers call the split packs of the Blencathra hounds off the line of a fox. Huntsman Barry Todhunter warns them over the radio not to take control of his hounds. If he was in control of his hounds, he must have been deliberately hunting the fox they […]
Footage taken while on a Southdown and Eridge Fox Hunt. Suporters seen near a badger sett.
Sabs stop hunt and supporters freak out
Lunesdale foxhounds march 11th 2010. prevented from chasing and killing a fox.
A documentary about the HSA, direct action and the response of the police. Transcript – follow Read More link
Bath, Bristol & Oxford hunt sabs take the hounds away from the Beaufort hunt using horn and voice calls. WARNING: scenes of aggression and liberal use of the c*** word by the hunt riders. They’ve just got no manners!
HSa Members monitoring the New Forest Foxhounds realise that no amount of filming will save the fox being chased by a pack of hounds with no huntsmen in sight. They will claim “an accident”, the police will believe them and a life will be lost. We went back to old fashioned spraying and saved the […]
November 2008: Hounds from the Ledbury Hunt started to rip apart a fox when hunt saboteurs intervened and saved him twice. He was eventually taken to a wildlife sanctuary and nursed back to health. The Hunting Act needs “recklessness” added to it or hunts will always claim such incidents are accidents. If they will hunt, […]
