Affiliations: Surrey Hunt Sabs, Kent Hunt Sabs, Founder of Gabo Wildlife, League Against Cruel Sports
Location: Dartford, Kent
Carly Ahlen is a Kent-based sab and self-professed marine mammals medic, drone pilot and migratory birds specialist.
Sources tell us that Ahlen is a known sab in the Kent area who disrupts legal activities in the name of animal rights activism. She is quoted in a League Against Cruel Sports article as “out every weekend with West Kent Hunt Saboteurs.”
At the end of last season, Ahlen was seen carrying something that looks suspiciously like a baton while masked and out sabbing.
West Kent Hunt Saboteurs are known for their questionable methods: Behind The Masks recently reported on the harassment charges filed against two of their members, Harry Blackhurst and Robert Bridger. Blackhurst has also been filmed using very offensive language towards members of a local hunt. The pair appeared before Margate Magistrates' Court in mid-August for the harassment charge, and their trial is due to begin in April 2025.
Heiress Ahlen?
Ahlen is thought to linked to Åhléns, a family-owned chain of Swedish department stores. With locations in almost every city in the country, it is Sweden's fourth-largest group of fashion stores. The company’s online revenue amounted to $110.5m in 2023.
Mixed Signals
Ahlen has described the death of a fox as “one of the most traumatic things I have ever seen.” Quite a statement from the full-time animal rehabilitator and ex-Royal Logistics Corps army veteran (she even uses her "fieldcrafts and military background out in the countryside monitoring fox hunts"). Ahlen’s commitment to the sanctity of all life may strike readers as somewhat at odds with her past career in the military.
