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home what's new action campaigns about powa email powa press releases	POWA was formed in 1998 by a group of two dozen former staff, executive committee members, regional representatives and hunt monitors of the League Against Cruel Sports. The POWA founders were both disappointed with the LACS and outraged at the Government's failure to honour its pre-election pledge to provide Parliamentary time for the abolition of hunting. POWA enables ex LACS staff and volunteers to campaign against hunting whilst also calling the Government to account through the NO BAN - NO VOTE campaign. POWA has no paid staff or offices; thus administration costs are kept to a bare minimum. In the field POWA advocates the observance of hunts by use of video and stills cameras to record the cruelty and vandalism of hunting. It is not only the persecuted wild animals that suffer but rural residents, car and train travellers and farmers whose lives are disrupted by hunts trespassing on private land, roads and railways lines. Livestock and domestic animals are often put in danger by hunts that are regularly out of control. Monitors attend hunts across the country every week during the hunting season. Those who are POWA related do so as independent individuals. They record the actions of these hunts with video and stills cameras to highlight the horrors of bloodsports. POWA campaigns for the protection of wildlife. It is committed to seeing the Hunting Act enforced or strengthened. Monitors who submit film to POWA work as independent individuals. Media spokespeople Protect Our Wild Animals spokespeople are available for comment and interviews on the subject of hunting with dogs and this Government's broken promises on the hunting issue. POWA speakers are highly experienced on the hunting issue, most have campaigned for tens of years for a ban on bloodsports. Beta and digital format video footage and stills can also be supplied. As POWA does not have offices or paid staff the press should contact the telephone numbers given below. If the enquiry is not urgent please email us (see navigation bar, left) with your requests. Press enquiries to: 07932 161972 or 07770 788566 John Bryant, one of the founder members of POWA, has been involved in the anti hunting cause for over thirty years. He has been a former vice chairman of the RSPCA council; chairman of Animal Aid council; and executive committee member of the League Against Cruel Sports. John managed the Ferne Animal Sanctuary for several years and is the author of several published books, all relating to animal welfare issues. John worked as the wildlife officer, then head of press and research and chief officer of the League Against Cruel Sports until 1998. In 1997 John was chief adviser to Michael Foster MP on his Wild Mammals (Hunting with Dogs) Bill. He has also helped formulate many other wildlife protection bills, including Protection of Badgers Act, Wildlife and Countryside Act and the Wild Mammals Protection Act.