The latest investigations, breaking stories and special reports from BTM. We expose the criminality and intimidation of so-called hunt saboteurs across the UK, giving a voice to the rural communities they target.
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It is not often that the sab movement submits itself for examination. This month, Lynne Graham's 496-page doctoral thesis appeared on Northumbria University's research portal, entitled: No Justice, Just Us: A qualitative mixed methods ethnographic study of organised foxhunting and anti-hunt activism in England and Wales.
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This year's Glorious Twelfth passed with rather less drama than the saboteur movement would have you believe. What at first glance looked like two or three separate actions across the Yorkshire moors turns out, on closer reading, to be one lawful shoot at Coverdale, checked by police and
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Andy Burnham had been Prime Minister for precisely two days when Sir Ben Wallace stood up at the East of England Showground and offered him a reset, which is more courtesy than the countryside has had from Downing Street in years. The Future for Hunting Festival of Hounds, held alongside
North London Hunt Saboteurs
On Saturday 25 July the Essex and Suffolk Hunt hosted a wholesome and light-hearted fun ride commencing in the village of Lindsey. What was a beautiful summers day was interrupted by a small group of disorderly protesters from the North London Hunt Saboteurs (NLHS) and Suffolk Action for Wildlife saboteurs.
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Foxes, hounds, gannets. Rob Pownall's campaigns are never short of animals. What they are short of is any account of what happens to them afterwards. The pattern was set in the spring of 2022, when Keep The Ban, the group Pownall founded, went to its supporters with two
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A skulk of sanctimonious sabs arrived at Leicester Square theatre on Monday 6 July to be entertained by an array of comedians, BBC hosts and sabotage sympathisers alike. Whilst the comedy evening was labelled as ‘Up the Anti’, Daniel Foxx’s BBC show ‘Welcome to Hell’ might be a better
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The BBC has confirmed that Winterwatch will not return after 14 years, retired in favour of a video podcast called Naturewatch. The corporation attributes the decision to an "evolving commissioning strategy" and to the wider funding squeeze that has already claimed 550 jobs as part of a £500
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Rob Pownall promised the Makerfield by-election would be a "national platform" to end hunting with hounds. The voters of Makerfield returned a verdict: 18 of them agreed. For weeks, the founder of Protect the Wild told anyone who would listen that the Makerfield by-election was his chance to
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On the eve of the consultation deadline, campaigners and their hounds brought the fight to DEFRA's doorstep, and a Labour peer led the charge against her own government. 24 hours before the government's consultation on trail hunting closes for good, the countryside brought its answer to
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At the League Against Cruel Sports rally outside Parliament on 9 May, a foxhound lay quietly at the campaigners' feet. Handled by Charlotte Smith of the Hull Wildlife Protectors, it became the unofficial mascot of the day, photographed alongside the broadcaster Chris Packham and his stepdaughter, the presenter Megan
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On 18 June, voters in Makerfield will go to the polls in a by-election that could return Andy Burnham to Parliament and trigger a Labour leadership contest. The same day, the Defra consultation on banning trail hunting closes. It is worth asking why twelve MPs have spent the run-up to
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Hunt saboteurs are no strangers to confronting those who support legal trail hunting. Over the years, their tactics have become depressingly familiar: harassment, stalking, verbal abuse and physical intimidation – all disguised as activism. Even against that grim backdrop, however, the recent conduct of one sab has managed to lower the