Hunt saboteur
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A hunt saboteur is an animal rights or animal welfare activist who takes direct action to prevent hunters from killing or hurting an animal. These types of actions are most often directed at stopping blood sports but are also, sometimes, attempting to stop food hunters.[citation needed]
Anti-bloodsports campaigners divide 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. Non-interventionists use video, photography and witness statements to support prosecution of hunters who commit offences. Saboteurs have widely alleged that they are targets of abuse and in some cases physical violence from hunters and hunt followers. Similar allegations are made the other way.
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. Hunting with hounds became illegal in the UK in 2005, although hunts do still continue in defiance of the law.
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