An overwhelming majority of people want gun magazines that show animals being killed for sport consigned to newsagents’ top shelves alongside pornography, according to a new public opinion poll. An even higher proportion want the...
Posted 11 Sep 2012
A campaign to ban the sale of gun magazines to children has been launched by Britain’s largest animal rights group, Animal Aid.
Posted 28 Aug 2012
In its latest and most welcome U-turn, this government has today scrapped its plans to allow buzzards’ nests to be destroyed and adult birds taken into captivity – both of which are currently illegal.
Posted 30 May 2012
One of the very first decisions Defra’s Animal Welfare Minister James Paice made when coming to office was to overturn a ban on the use of battery-style cages for breeding pheasants. Now, it seems, he...
Posted 24 May 2012
The Green Party has reiterated its fundamental opposition to bloodsports, following the publication in a leading regional newspaper of pro-shooting comments by a rogue councillor.
Posted 08 Mar 2012
The Scottish Government has passed a law of Criminal Vicarious Liability to ensure that those who direct or turn a blind eye towards the persecution of birds of prey can be held to account by...
Posted 12 Dec 2011
On a series of covert visits to ‘game bird’ farms around the country, Animal Aid’s investigators have filmed a large number of dead and ailing birds, as well as the disposal areas of some establishments...
Posted 14 Sep 2011
With the grouse-slaughtering festival known, incongruously, as the 'Glorious Twelfth' fast approaching, Animal Aid has written to Defra Minister Jim Paice calling upon him to follow the Scottish government's lead and make shooting estate owners...
Posted 04 Aug 2011
Animal Aid's Shooting Consultant, Kit Davidson, was recently interviewed as part of BBC's Countryfile programme about a particularly cruel device used by gamekeepers for killing birds – the Larsen Trap.
Posted 24 May 2011
Animal Aid this week publishes what is probably the most comprehensive practical guide to ‘gamebird’ shooting and the problems it presents to people living in the vicinity of shoots.
Posted 20 Oct 2010