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
The new Hunting and Shooting Minister, Jim Paice, has withdrawn a new Code of Practice for 'game bird' production that would have outlawed battery cages for breeding pheasants. It has been replaced by a watered...
Posted 06 Jul 2010
One of the first decisions by the new Hunting and Shooting Minister, Jim Paice, has been to withdraw a new Code of Practice for ‘game bird’ production (made under the Animal Welfare Act 2006). The...
Posted 07 Jun 2010
Animal Aid’s new publication, The Trouble with Shooting, is a short and informative guide for anyone who wants to know more about the mass-production of pheasants, partridges and ducks, destined to become feathered targets for...
Posted 30 Apr 2010
After more than six years of campaigning and undercover exposés by Animal Aid of battery cages used for 'game birds', the government has today issued a new industry Code of Practice that effectively outlaws the...
Posted 15 Mar 2010
The government-appointed Working Group charged with setting rules for how ‘game birds’ will in future be produced for shooting has caused widespread dismay this week by publishing a Code of Practice that fails to outlaw...
Posted 26 Nov 2009
A new Animal Aid report charts the growing backlash against grouse shooting, and attacks the Tory-led coalition government for the way in which it has ‘increased the flow of public money in the moor owners’...
Posted 27 Sep 2009