28th October 2025 Are you based near Manchester? Do you have free time on Saturdays? Join Manchester Hunt Sabs! We’re holding a recruitment day very soon. If you’d like to come along, DM us on Instagram or Facebook for details. And keep your eyes on our socials over the next few weeks for more updates. …
HOWL – Hounds Off Our Wildlife!
28th October 2025 HOWL – the magazine of the Hunt Saboteurs Association – will be hitting the doormats of our thousands of members in the next couple of weeks. As usual, it is packed with news from the front line in the fight against all blood sports. This forty-page edition features articles on a huge …
Sabs Disrupt Shoots Across Moorlands On ‘Glorious Twelfth’
12th August 2025 A large contingent of sabs from across the country saved the lives of hundreds of red grouse today on the ‘Glorious Twelfth’, as shoots were stopped in the Forest of Bowland and the Yorkshire Dales. Image © Manchester Hunt Sabs A crack team of spotters were out early doors scouring England’s uplands in search …
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Message from Manchester Hunt Sabs 25th May 2025 Hunting still takes place across the UK. Foxes are chased and killed under the false guise of "TrAiL hUnTiNg", a smokescreen created to make illegal hunting look legitimate. Terriermen still turn up with quads and dogs. Setts are still being blocked. Wildlife is still suffering. With (hopefully) …
Hunt Saboteurs Association: Designed by Activists for Activists!
13th May 2025 Back in 1963, the Hunt Saboteurs Association (HSA) was created by people who saw the need for an organisation using direct action to combat the evils of hunting. The HSA quickly grew around the country and as the years passed the organisation became more formal with a constitution and committee. In the …
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Gamekeeper from a Yorkshire Dales grouse moor charged in relation to alleged shooting of hen harrier (as featured on Channel 4 News in October)
14th April 2025 Message from Raptor Persecution UK In October last year, Channel 4 News featured incredible footage secretly filmed by the RSPB’s investigations team of three gamekeepers plotting to kill, and then allegedly killing, a hen harrier on an unnamed grouse moor in the north of England (see here). If you missed the piece on …
The Secret Monitor: The war on wildlife on a North Yorkshire shooting estate
9th April 2025 Message from Protect The Wild "I began monitoring the local pheasant shoot around a decade ago...the endless, year-round killing of native wildlife drove me to do this." Damaging stories from inside hunting and shooting have been circulating for years. Both industries present a public face that aims to convince politicians and the …
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Secret filming reveals the killing of rare Hen Harriers on grouse moors
From Channel 4 News 22nd October 2024 The RSPB launch their Birdcrime report this week. It says that the past two years have seen the highest number of rare Hen Harriers disappearing, and killed under suspicious circumstances, since records began. One thing is clear, the passing Swaledale sheep certainly notices the hidden camera. But what’s …
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Run Out Of Stean: Stean Grouse Shoot Gets Sabbed
17th August 2024 Following on from Monday’s highly successful sabotage of the Wemmergill Estate’s first grouse shoot of the season, sabs were once again out taking action against the tweed-clad wildlife abusers. After scouting the estates of the Peak District to ensure all was quiet in the area, the large group of sabs headed north …
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Sabs silence guns on the Wemmergill estate
12th August 2024 Hundreds of grouse were saved today (Monday 12th) as saboteurs from across the country headed to the North Pennines to stop the guns on the first day of the grouse shooting season, known by animal abusers as the ‘Glorious Twelfth’. From early in the morning, a crack team of spotters scoured the many …
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