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March for the badgers!

The campaign to protect badgers from the government-sanctioned cull continued with a march in London on June 1st. Organised by London Against the Cull and supported by many animal protection organisations, including Animal Aid, marchers...

Posted 14 May 2013

Badger flash mob

Today (May 1st) Animal Aid joined a flashmob organised by Lush, to dance and sing our protest against the badger cull outside Defra's offices.

Posted 01 May 2013

Badger Battle Bus on tour

Last week, Animal Aid’s Badger Battle Bus visited Gloucestershire to urge residents to vote for badger-friendly candidates in the forthcoming local elections.

Posted 22 Apr 2013

Two people die in new bird flu outbreak

A strain of bird flu virus that has not previously been reported in humans has killed two people in China and four more remain critically ill.

Posted 11 Apr 2013

Dutch could ban all ‘sport’ shooting

Animal Aid has campaigned hard against the shooting of ‘game birds’ for sport for 15 years, gathering evidence through undercover filming and publishing several reports that make evident the wholesale cruelty and environmental damage involved.

Posted 11 Apr 2013

Panda prison

The big unrequited ‘love story’ of the spring was that of Edinburgh zoo’s giant pandas, Tian Tian and her fellow captive Yang Guang.

Posted 06 Apr 2013

Join the fight for flight

The Captive Animal Protection Society has produced a new report detailing mutilations that are commonly inflicted on birds in zoos. At just a few days old, thousands of birds in British zoos and nature parks...

Posted 04 Apr 2013

Badger cull – don’t give up the fight!

The government has announced that the badger cull will go ahead, and is likely to start on June 1st. This is despite many eminent scientists and wildlife experts opposing the cull. Opinion polls show the...

Posted 02 Apr 2013

Farmed animals die in the snow

Whilst reports in the media about the enduring cold weather and snow have largely focused on the impacts on people, we are just beginning to hear about the consequences for farmed animals.

Posted 26 Mar 2013