Hunt saboteur
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Hunt sabotage is the direct action
that animal rights
or animal welfare
activists undertake to interfere with hunting
activity.
Anti-hunting
campaigners are divided into those who believe in direct intervention and those who watch the hunt to monitor for cruelty
and report violations of animal welfare laws. Interventionists may lay false trails or use sound and visual distractions to prevent the hunters from being successful, and enter hunting estates and farms to disarm animal traps.
Non-interventionists use video, photography and witness statements to support prosecution of hunters who commit offenses or to raise awareness of issues they consider show hunting as cruel, ineffective or in a bad light.
In the United Kingdom
the interventionists are often (but not always) members of the Hunt Saboteurs Association
, while the non-interventionists are often members of the League Against Cruel Sports
or, more recently, Protect Our Wild Animals or the International Fund for Animal Welfare.
In Spain
, every year organizations such as Equanimal
or the platform Matar por matar, non are involved in the sabotage of the Copa Nacional de Caza del Zorro (Spanish
: "National Fox Hunt Cup") following the hunters making noise with megaphones to scare fox
es and preventing them from being killed.
Direct action
Direct action is activity undertaken by individuals, groups, or governments to achieve political, economic, or social goals outside of normal social/political channels. This can include nonviolent and violent activities which target persons, groups, or property deemed offensive to the direct action...
that animal rights
Animal rights
Animal rights, also known as animal liberation, is the idea that the most basic interests of non-human animals should be afforded the same consideration as the similar interests of human beings...
or animal welfare
Animal welfare
Animal welfare is the physical and psychological well-being of animals.The term animal welfare can also mean human concern for animal welfare or a position in a debate on animal ethics and animal rights...
activists undertake to interfere with hunting
Hunting
Hunting is the practice of pursuing any living thing, usually wildlife, for food, recreation, or trade. In present-day use, the term refers to lawful hunting, as distinguished from poaching, which is the killing, trapping or capture of the hunted species contrary to applicable law...
activity.
Anti-hunting
Anti-hunting
Anti-hunting is a term which is used to identify or describe persons or groups, generally in a political context, who stand in opposition to hunting. It is also used to describe efforts to prevent hunting through legislation and other means which can include acts of civil disobedience such as hunt...
campaigners are divided into those who believe in direct intervention and those who watch the hunt to monitor for cruelty
Cruelty
Cruelty can be described as indifference to suffering, and even positive pleasure in inflicting it. If this is supported by a legal or social framework, then receives the name of perversion. Sadism can also be related to this form of action or concept....
and report violations of animal welfare laws. Interventionists may lay false trails or use sound and visual distractions to prevent the hunters from being successful, and enter hunting estates and farms to disarm animal traps.
Non-interventionists use video, photography and witness statements to support prosecution of hunters who commit offenses or to raise awareness of issues they consider show hunting as cruel, ineffective or in a bad light.
In the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
the interventionists are often (but not always) members of the Hunt Saboteurs Association
Hunt Saboteurs Association
The Hunt Saboteurs Association is a worldwide organization using direct action to stop the hunting of animals. HSA activists use a model of leaderless resistance and have been using the same basic tactics since their inception in 1963; the underlying principle being to directly intervene in a...
, while the non-interventionists are often members of the League Against Cruel Sports
League Against Cruel Sports
The League Against Cruel Sports are an animal welfare organisation that campaigns against all blood sports including bull fighting, fox hunting and hare coursing. It also campaigns to ban the manufacture, sale and use of snares, for the regulation of greyhound racing and for an end to commercial...
or, more recently, Protect Our Wild Animals or the International Fund for Animal Welfare.
In Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
, every year organizations such as Equanimal
Equanimal
Equanimal is a Spanish non profit animal rights organization. Comes from the fusion in 2006 of "Alternativa para la Liberación Animal" and "Derechos para los Animales" .They focus on anything they consider against animal exploitation, such as animal testing, fur farms and the use of fur as...
or the platform Matar por matar, non are involved in the sabotage of the Copa Nacional de Caza del Zorro (Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
: "National Fox Hunt Cup") following the hunters making noise with megaphones to scare fox
Fox
Fox is a common name for many species of omnivorous mammals belonging to the Canidae family. Foxes are small to medium-sized canids , characterized by possessing a long narrow snout, and a bushy tail .Members of about 37 species are referred to as foxes, of which only 12 species actually belong to...
es and preventing them from being killed.