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Deceit And Dishonesty From Hunting’s Discredited Leaders
05/08/2024
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
12th August: The Culmination Of A Year Of Killing – Part 1
31/07/2024
In the first of two articles, moorland campaigner and author Bob Berzins looks at the year-round war on wildlife in Britain’s uplands.
HSA And Chris Packham Release Damning Video
29/07/2024
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!
Hunt Saboteurs Association Says “Free Paul Watson!”
25/07/2024
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.
Double Trouble For Hunters As HSA Summer Campaign Continues
24/07/2024
The Hunt Saboteurs Association summer campaign continues, with hunters hit in the East Midlands and East Anglia at the weekend.
Smokescreen Saturday: Hunters To Hold ‘National Trail Hunting Day’
22/07/2024
Pro-bloodsports group the British Hound Sports Association (BHSA) claims it will hold a ‘National Trail Hunting Day’ on Saturday 14th September 2024.
Hingham Horror: West Norfolk Foxhounds Guilty Of Illegal Hunting
21/07/2024
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.
Chris Packham Says: Hounds Off Our Wildlife!
17/07/2024
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.
Burton Huntsman Charged With Illegal Fox Hunting
12/07/2024
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.
Another South Wales Hunt Bites The Dust
11/07/2024
News has reached the HSA confirming rumours that South Wales hare hunt, the Monmouthshire & Valley Beagles, have folded.
Hunt Sabs On The March In London!
23/06/2024
The Hunt Saboteurs Association was proud to join over 60,000 marchers in central London yesterday to demand that the new government Restore Nature Now. With 350 organisations represented – from Extinction Rebellion to the Bat Conservation Trust – this was the largest march of its kind in history.
Read All About It: Take a Dive into the HSA’s History Book
19/06/2024
There’s been so much progress within the anti-hunt movement recently, especially since those infamous Hunting Office webinars. But they haven’t come out of nowhere.
Summer hunt shut down in Staffordshire
16/06/2024
The campaign against the mink and otter hunters continues, as hunt sabs shut down a meet of the Dove Valley Mink Hounds yesterday. The hunt
Fox Hunting – Where Do They Stand?
13/06/2024
Politicians of all parties frequently state that the issue of fox hunting produces some of their biggest mailbags. In this week of manifesto launches, the HSA takes a quick look at the major party’s positions on hunting.
Getting Away With Murder: North Shropshire Hunt Evade Justice
07/06/2024
Almost twenty years after the passing of the Hunting Act, the HSA today releases yet more clear-cut footage of illegal hunting. However, in a familiar sequence of events, the CPS failed to get this compelling case to court.