Born in 1946, Ian Pedler has been opposed to blood sports since first joining the League Against Cruel Sports as a ten-year-old. He was active with the Hunt Saboteurs Association from its inception in 1963, then as founder of the Save Our Stags Campaign, while also serving as an Executive Committee member of the League until resigning as an active animal rights campaigner in the late 1980s. His professional life has been spent in the field of community mental health social work, at which he is still employed part-time. He lives in the West Country with his wife Josie.