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“I feel sick. Sick. What sort of psychopaths do this and more importantly why are this government allowing them to get away with it?”

CHRIS PACKHAM

Friends No More: The One Where Ross Leaves the BHSA

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.

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Red Sky in the Morning: Partridge Shooting Season Commences

Our annual campaign to disrupt the high-profile ‘Glorious 12th’ – the opening day of the gamebird shooting season – every August targeting the grouse moors of the north of England has been immensely successful. Many shoots now deliberately schedule opening meets later in the week and beyond to avoid us.

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Countryside Alliance: More Money Than Sense

As the government’s consultation on so-called ‘trail hunting’ edges ever closer, the increasingly desperate Countryside Alliance have launched a scheme where new members can nominate a hunt to receive fifty pounds from CA coffers.

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Cubbing Takes A Drubbing From Sabs Across The Country

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

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Heightened Avian Influenza Risk Warning Issued

Avian Influenza has been a significant problem in the UK since 2021 and it’s no coincidence that the latest outbreak comes as the shooting industry gears up for the pheasant and partridge shooting seasons. In August 2022 the HSA revealed shocking undercover footage of gamebirds being reared at Shelford Pheasantries

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Hunt Sabs Mobilise Against the Cub Hunters

Cubbing – the sick form of hunting used to train their new hounds – is already underway in parts of the country. Cubbing takes place in the early morning or late afternoon when the summer day is cooler, and the scenting conditions are better for inexperienced hounds.

Last Saturday, Devon

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July 2025 Round Up

There is never a dull moment as Hunt Sab groups across Britain continue to confront illegal hunting and wildlife abuse in the fields and in the courts. July was no different. Mid-summer is also the time where many of us can find some time to fundraise to support our operations

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The Terror of Exmoor – Staghounds Return

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

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Rogues Gallery

ROGUES GALLERY

Our Rogues Gallery of hunting related offenses by hunters and their associates.

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HOWL ARCHIVE

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