Badger cull cruel and ineffective
A leaked report by the Independent Expert Panel (IEP) has now confirmed what we already knew – the trial badger cull was cruel and didn’t work. The IEP was appointed by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) to evaluate the effectiveness, humaneness and safety of the Gloucestershire and Somerset pilots. The leaked […]
100 Saboteurs Descend on Dartmoor to mark 50th Anniversary of the Hunt Saboteurs Association
On Boxing Day 1963 four people sabbed the South Devon hunt in what was the first official act of sabotage by the Hunt Saboteurs Association. On Saturday 18 January 2014, just over 50 years later, over 100 hunt saboteurs from across Southern England and Wales descended on Dartmoor National Park to sabotage the same hunt. […]
Fox and Deer Disembowelling Prove Hunt Cruelty
HSA news release 5th October 2002 DEER ATTACKED AND DISEMBOWELLED Hunt saboteurs today (5 Oct) looked on in horror as hounds from the Old Berkshire Hunt ripped apart a Muntjac deer in a field at Westcot, Oxfordshire . The hunt had met at Kingston Lisle near Wantage, Oxon at 7.30 a.m. to hunt young fox […]