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 post Hunt Saboteurs Association Says “Free Paul Watson!” appeared first on Hunt Saboteurs Association ..read more

The Hunt Saboteurs Association summer campaign continues, with hunters hit in the East Midlands and East Anglia at the weekend. The post Double Trouble For Hunters As HSA Summer Campaign Continues appeared first on Hunt Saboteurs Association ..read more

Pro-bloodsports group the British Hound Sports Association (BHSA) claims it will hold a ‘National Trail Hunting Day’ on Saturday 14th September 2024. The coordinated series of events – dubbed ‘Smokescreen Saturday’ by the HSA – will see fox, hare, stag and mink hunters gather in around 30 locations across the country. This poor fox was hunted and killed on the anniversary of the Hunting Act. Each of these carefully stage-managed events will involve laying a scent trail in front of an invited audience of journalists, police and politicians. Of course, such activity bears no resemblance to what ..read more

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. On Friday 19th July 2024, after a landmark three-day trial, the professional huntsman and whipper-in of the West Norfolk Foxhounds were found guilty on two counts each of hunting foxes. The terrified fox trapped on a patio at Hingham. The case was complex in that it involved two very different types of evidence relating to separate incidents, presented by multiple people amounting to 25 charges against four senior hunters u ..read more

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. Top work: our Summer 2024 cover star, Chris Packham. As well as Chris’ article, this 40-page issue carries features on Irish hare coursing, how to ‘help a toad across the road’ and news from our sixty-plus affiliated groups! HSA members receive HOWL three times a year – it is always packed with news and views from the front line in the fight against blood sports. P ..read more

An important update from Lincoln Hunt Saboteurs: “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. Every week we witnessed Neil cast his hounds into thick, impenetrable copses and elephant grass fields where no trail layer could have possibly ventured. It was only ever a matter of time before we captured the footage that we have since handed to Lincolnshire Rural Crime Team, footage that has ultimately brought about the charge. Lincoln Hu ..read more

News has reached the HSA confirming rumours that South Wales hare hunt, the Monmouthshire & Valley Beagles, have folded. This follows a string of other hunts in the region closing down in recent years, including the nearby Caerphilly & District Foxhounds who we reported were to hunt for the final time last season. The M&VB hunted the valleys and hill country of Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire. The hunt was formed by the amalgamation of two separate packs, the Valley Beagles and the Monmouthshire Beagles in 2015. A spokesperson for the HSA said, “This is yet another example of h ..read more

The Hunt Saboteurs Association was proud to join over 100,000 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. HSA black flags on the march. Organised by HSA supporter Chris Packham, Restore Nature Now calls for a ‘pay rise’ for nature and greater access to our natural world. The HSA contingent brought the horror of hunting to the streets of London by blowing hunting horns and playing a chilling recording of ..read more

There’s been so much progress within the anti-hunt movement recently, especially since those infamous Hunting Office webinars. Whether it’s hunts folding left, right and centre, Labour’s promise of a true ban on fox hunting in England and Wales, the introduction of the Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Act 2023, snares being banned in both Wales and Scotland, the victories are coming thick and fast. But they haven’t come out of nowhere. Sabs Tail a Supporter of the Croome and West Warwickshire Hunt, 1979. Image credit: AWIS. For over six decades, the Hunt Saboteurs Association has been taking direc ..read more

The campaign against the mink and otter hunters continues, as hunt sabs shut down a meet of the Dove Valley Mink Hounds yesterday. Hunt walk of shame after being rumbled by sabs. Lincoln Hunt Sabs The hunt met at Cawarden Springs Farm, Rugeley, Staffs and were hunting along the River Trent in the pouring rain when sabs from the Nottingham, Sheffield, Lincoln and West Midlands groups descended. What followed was the now traditional walk of shame back to the meet to pack up, with sabs then escorting the hound trailer back to their kennels, putting an end to their already miserable day. Dove Vall ..read more