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Following on from Monday’s highly successful sabotage of the Wemmergill Estate’s first grouse shoot of the season, sabs were once again out taking action.

As predicted, the Labour Party won the General Election by quite a landslide. Within Labour’s manifesto was a promise to close the loopholes which have allowed hunts to continue to hunt live quarry ever since the passing of the Hunting Act nearly twenty years ago.

Saboteurs from across the country headed to the North Pennines to stop the guns on the first day of the grouse shooting season, known by animal abusers as the ‘Glorious Twelfth’.

In his second article, moorland campaigner and author Bob Berzins takes a detailed look at the hideous array of traps that litter our upland environments.

Yesterday morning, Mendip and North Dorset Hunt Sabs tried to stop the Quantock Stag Hounds from killing a magnificent stag at the start of the new hunting season.

The British Hound Sports Association (BHSA) is pressing on with plans for ‘Smokescreen Saturday’ which will take place in September. With growing calls for the next Government to close loopholes in the Hunting Act and ban so-called ‘trail hunting,’ the pro-bloodsports lobby group is embarking on a last ditch effort to save their pastime

In the first of two articles, moorland campaigner and author Bob Berzins looks at the year-round war on wildlife in Britain’s uplands.

The HSA is today urging our supporters to share the first of our hard-hitting election videos. Narrated by Chris Packham, the video attempts the impossible task of distilling the cruelty, criminality and chaos of hunting into just two minutes!

The HSA is today urging its thousands of supporters to get behind the campaign to free legendary anti-whaling activist Captain Paul Watson, who has been arrested by Danish police in Nuuk, Greenland.

The Hunt Saboteurs Association summer campaign continues, with hunters hit in the East Midlands and East Anglia at the weekend.

Pro-bloodsports group the British Hound Sports Association (BHSA) claims it will hold a ‘National Trail Hunting Day’ on Saturday 14th September 2024.

Right-minded citizens the nation over were shocked and appalled at footage broadcast last year on ITV News of a fox being eviscerated on a family patio by a pack of hounds.

TV conservationist, national treasure and hunt sab supporter, Chris Packham, has written an exclusive article for the Summer 2024 edition of HOWL – originally Hounds Off Our Wildlife – the magazine of the Hunt Saboteurs Association.

As most of our followers are now aware, Neil Burton – huntsman for the Burton Hunt – has been charged under Section One of the Hunting Act 2004 which prohibits a person from hunting a wild mammal with dogs.

News has reached the HSA confirming rumours that South Wales hare hunt, the Monmouthshire & Valley Beagles, have folded.
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