Nearly 20 years after hunting was supposedly banned, up and down the country hunts continue to chase and kill foxes, hare, mink, otters and deer for fun.
To make the law fit for purpose and to protect British wildlife, the Government MUST:From those living in rural communities, to hunt saboteurs and animal protection agencies and even police chiefs, everyone knows the law on hunting isn’t working, and it’s time for these rural crime gangs to be stopped.
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Finally, over 20 years since the flawed Hunting Act was introduced, Labour has announced they will stop the charade of trail hunting. The ban is part of an Animal Welfare Strategy that is due to be published today and was a manifesto pledge of the Labour government. Hunt sabs in
Last week, the Hunt Saboteurs Association shared exclusive and shocking footage of the Coniston Foxhounds digging a terrified fox from its earth, before dragging out the poor animal and feeding it live to a pack of baying foxhounds in what can only have been an excruciating fate.
On Saturday 8th November, Lake District Hunt Sabs filmed the Coniston Foxhounds in the act of digging out a fox and ripping her to pieces. Just weeks before the government’s hunting consultation is due to begin, hunt saboteurs have once again exploded the myth of trail hunting! When the HSA
The Hunt Saboteurs Association has produced a booklet titled ‘Witness The End Of Hunting’ which outlines our plans to stop hunters in their tracks or – at least – get them into court with a high chance of prosecution. With the government’s consultation on hunting to begin “early in the
The Hunt Saboteurs Association and its affiliated groups have been actively opposing all forms of hunting with hounds since 1963. This means we have over sixty years’ experience of studying hunting in the field and developing tactics to sabotage it. Chris Packham helps to launch our campaign. As such, we
It was the will-they, won’t-they, on-off relationship that had the nation gripped for months, but the HSA can exclusively reveal that the Herefordshire-based Ross Harriers have walked out on hunting’s regulatory body, the British Hound Sports Association.
This week has seen sabs across the country out in force while most people are still asleep. For many hunts, the cubbing season has now started. Sab groups have been keeping an eye on their local hunts and have reported that many of them, who would usually still be ‘hound
August has arrived and with it, the start of the heinous Autumn Staghunting season, which is the trophy hunting portion of the stag hunters’ “sport”. From August to November they target mature rutting stags, royal stags or greater, in the prime of their lives, forcing them to now run for
A guest article by Devon County Hunt Sabs. Includes video footage of a dig out.
A few weeks ago we were informed by Devon & Cornwall Police that their investigation into one of several incidents we reported last season had concluded. The outcome is that Eggesford Hunt’s Danny Pearce has
