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HUNTING SEASON 2023-24: A BRIEF REVIEW

25th March 2024 A piece like this can never do justice to the week-in, week-out efforts of sabs who venture out in all weathers to face down the hunters. We can’t cover, for example, the 58 hunt meets that Nottingham sabs have attended this season, nor the 55 times Salisbury Plain sabs went out to …

A Hunt Sab : My Saturday

16th February 2024 Inspired by Gregg Wallace’s recent article, a Hunt Sab talks us through their typical Saturday. 7.00am I wake up, get a coffee and breakfast and check messages relating to the day’s sabbing plans. I charged my equipment the night before: camcorder, radio, phone, body camera, so I pack it all away in a …

Outfoxed: have the hunt saboteurs wiped out hunting?

3rd September 2024 Over 60 years ago the first punches were thrown in what became a bitter guerilla campaign in the British countryside. Hunting was supposedly banned in 2004 but carried on regardless — now the hunt saboteurs are finally winning, writes JOHN LILBURNE. Hunt saboteurs, or ‘sabs,’ have now done battle in the countryside …

Hunt Saboteurs Association Tip off Hotline

The HSA now have a tip-off hotline that you can contact in strict confidence! If you have some information about a hunt or have seen a hunt please get in touch, someone will respond to you as soon as possible 07443  148426.  

Pro-shooting minister approves gamebird licences despite bird flu warning

29th November 2023 Exclusive: Lord Benyon overruled his own experts to allow release of pheasants and partridges in protected sites A pro-shooting environment minister allowed gamebirds to be released into protected wildlife sites for hunting despite his own experts warning it could spread bird flu to at-risk species. Lord Richard Benyon, who himself owns a …

Two-thirds of confirmed illegal killings of birds of prey last year linked to shooting estates

From Channel 4 News 23rd November 2023 Around two-thirds of the confirmed illegal killings of birds of prey last year are linked to shooting estates. That's according to the RSPB's latest report on bird crime, which we can exclusively reveal. Buzzards, red kites, goshawks, hen harriers, peregrine falcons and white-tailed eagles have all fallen victim …

Britain’s pheasant shooting season has begun. And a year-round massacre makes it possible

6th October 2023 George Monbiot Class politics is nowhere more visible than in the protected slaughter of game, with disastrous effects on our countryside. It’s one of the bluntest expressions of class power in the United Kingdom. Like all expressions of class power, it has become normalised until we treat it as a fixed fact …

Man convicted for killing pine marten on Scottish gamebird shooting estate but something odd going on here…

1st October 2023 Post from Raptor Persecution UK Earlier this week, Police Scotland issued a press statement about the conviction of two men in relation to a wildlife crime investigation on a pheasant and partridge shooting estate in Stewartry, Dumfries & Galloway. David Excell, 54, pleaded guilty to trapping and killing a pine marten on …

Powys farmer denies killing protected bird of prey

21st September 2023 A POWYS man charged with killing a protected bird of prey on his farm has denied the offence and will face a trial later this year. Thomas Edward Jones, 38, is accused of shooting dead a northern goshawk at his northern Powys pheasant farm on July 22 last year. Jones, of Pentre …