Chris Packham Slams Cruel Lake District Fox Hunt!

The latest edition of our magazine HOWL – originally Hounds Off Wild Life – has recently hit the doormats of our thousands of members. If you want to get your hands on your own copy, simply join the HSA. Please note that the magazine is available either by post or

Last Saturday, Wiltshire Sabs witnessed the Duke of Beaufort Hunt – the hunt that King Charles and Camilla used to ride with – kill a fox, before stuffing her remains into a convenient bin bag. Watch the video – warning graphic content Sabs had been on the hunt all day

“Terrier work, this is our soft under belly.” This was a quote from Mark Hankinson, former Master of Foxhounds Association Director, Hunting Office Executive Director and former Master of the Wilton Hunt. Hankinson said this during a Hunting Office webinar, during which the panel advised over one hundred hunt masters

Yes, it’s nearly Christmas, that time of the year where we make our annual joke about having an aversion to all men in red coats, except Father Christmas. As always, we have a great range of merchandise to choose from as the festive season approaches. First off, we have some

It’s been just over two weeks since Lake District Hunt Sabs caught the Coniston Foxhounds digging out and killing a fox. It was immediately obvious to anyone looking at the footage that the cruelty on show was endemic and entirely routine – young and old members of the hunt worked

Lake District Hunt Sabs Give A First-hand Account Of The Coniston Kill Hundreds of thousands of people have now seen Lake District Hunt Sabs’ drone footage of the Coniston Foxhounds ripping a fox – who sabs have named Ember – to pieces. The footage has been devastating for hunting, proving

Avian flu is an ever increasing issue. With the “outbreak season” just under way, keepers of large numbers of farmed birds must take precautions to reduce the risk of flocks catching and spreading the disease. Game Farms are no exception to these rules; sitting at a dangerous intersection between farming

We’re just over two weeks into the main hunting season, which runs from the end of October through to the end of March or early April. Hunts are now meeting later in the mornings – a small mercy for sleep-deprived sabs – but the days themselves stretch on longer. As

Last Wednesday, the HSA published harrowing drone footage – shot by heroic Lake District Hunt Sabs – of the Coniston Foxhounds digging out a fox and ripping her to pieces. At least seven people have been arrested as a result. Today we can reveal that a key representative from the