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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The Consultation On 26 March, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs launched a formal public consultation on banning trail hunting in England and Wales - a practice introduced after the Hunting Act 2004 as a lawful alternative to fox hunting, using an animal-scented rag. The government has given
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Now that the trail hunting season is drawing to a close, hunt saboteurs have wasted no time in finding new ways to terrorise local communities. If they can't disrupt a legal hunt, they'll disrupt something else. It really is them against the countryside. Members of the
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For someone who campaigns against legal trail hunting, Deborah Hall has developed quite a taste for the chase. Deborah Hall is no ordinary sab. As BTM has previously reported, the Cornwall-based coordinator of Action Against Foxhunting is known to push well beyond the boundaries of reasonable protest. From her failed
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Chris Packham just so happens to stumble across the perfect sob story while out for a stroll in the Dorset countryside. During the now-infamous "Operation Smokescreen" livestream on 7 February, BBC Springwatch presenter Chris Packham spent five hours following the Blackmore & Sparkford Vale Hunt around Bishop'
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A Kent-based hunt saboteur has been caught using a fake identity on popular dating app Hinge in what appears to be a deliberate attempt to infiltrate the hunting and countryside community. Carly Ahlen, a regular with West Kent Hunt Saboteurs and founder of GABO Wildlife, created a profile under the
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Cheshire Monitors' Anthony Robinson was allegedly caught by police illegally flying his drone out of sight and over private property at Cholmondeley Park, Cheshire. Sources tell us Robinson was asked to leave after he was unable to produce a valid drone licence when challenged by officers. UK drone laws
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In yet another display of activism masquerading as rural advocacy, the Plymouth and West Devon Hunt Saboteurs have launched a campaign against Bridestowe Village Hall for committing the apparently heinous crime of... functioning as a village hall. Their target? A fundraising lunch for the Spooners & West Dartmoor Hunt this
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Video evidence shows Emma Jayne Corbould collecting hidden recording device — But she won’t face any punishment. A hunt supporter near Wrexham was horrified to discover a surveillance camera hidden in a hedge outside his family home where his children play, planted by an anti-hunt saboteur who has allegedly been
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Hunt saboteur Neal Buckoke orchestrates online attack that could force a Somerset farmer to cull her beloved animals Neal Buckoke, a notorious hunt saboteur and anti-establishment conspiracy theorist, is the driving force behind Two Counties Hunt Saboteurs' vicious campaign against Somerset Reindeer Ranch, an online crusade that could result
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The New Hunting Ban, a political pressure group which previously broke parliamentary standards, returned to Parliament on 16 December, this time to publish their legislative recommendations to ban trail hunting. The campaign group is preparing to intensify pressure on the government ahead of ministers' planned public consultation on the
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Richard Duprey has been given a nine-month suspended sentence and £500 fine for Grievous Bodily Harm (GBH). And his sab group? They're celebrating it. Richard Duprey, also known as Richard White, was sentenced on was sentenced on 9 January at Craigavon Courthouse to a nine-month suspended sentence and
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The Official BTM Guide to Spotting & Stopping Hunt Saboteurs Think you’ve spotted a sab? Here’s how to turn that encounter into evidence we can use. Follow these six steps to help us expose the criminality and anti-social behaviour by these countryside terrorists. 1. Pin your position Always