Hunting Campaign

It was undoubtedly the League Against Cruel Sports' proudest moment when the culmination of eighty years' campaigning brought about the Hunting Act in 2004, protecting wildlife from the savagery and cruelty of the hunt.

However, despite the consigning of their 'sport' to the history books, the hunters are now stepping up their efforts to have the Hunting Act repealed.  Moreover, some politicians want to repeal the hunting ban despite 75% of the public being in favour of keeping it. 

Over recent months, the League worked tirelessly to to establish all political party candidates' views on hunting were. With a new House of Commons, the hunters are already going to extraordinary lengths to lobby MPs to support repeal of the Hunting Act.

Our national Keep Cruelty History campaign aims to convince as many people as possible that the Hunting Act must stay.  The campaign aims to highlight the fact that some politicians want to bring back hunting with dogs in spite of overwhelming public opinion that all forms of hunting should remain illegal.

In May 2010, we published our annual Hunting Report, which covers the 2009-2010 hunting season. It demonstrates that whilst a hardcore element in the hunting community continue to flout the law, the Hunting Act is working well and there have been almost 140 convictions under the Act.