In response to an article in the Times on the discovery of dumped pheasants, the manager of Bettws Hall Game Farm was quoted (18 January) as saying: ‘I hope they are taken to task by...
Posted 18 Jan 2019
Every year, around 50 million pheasants and partridges are purpose-bred for the shooting industry. Animal Aid continues to call for a ban on the production of birds for ‘sport’ shooting. But as an important interim...
Posted 26 Oct 2018
We have just released a short film using undercover footage shot at a game farm, showing the suffering endured by birds in Larsen traps. We set a long-running camera filming two Larsen traps at Bonson...
Posted 22 Sep 2018
National Resources Wales has confirmed that it will stop leasing out public land for shooting.
Posted 20 Sep 2018
Please help with this year’s National Anti-Shooting Week, which focuses on our campaign to ban the cruel battery cages for breeding pheasants and partridges.
Posted 13 Sep 2018
In the run-up to the start of the shooting season, we can announce that a gamekeeper at one of the most exclusive and expensive shoots in the country – the Chargot Estate – has been...
Posted 21 Aug 2018
The grouse shooting season commences on 12 August - the so-called Glorious Twelfth. Help us to raise awareness about the harm to animals and the environment caused by the grouse shooting industry.
Posted 02 Aug 2018
A statement issued by the Welsh Government on 16 July indicates that the shooting of birds for sport on Welsh Government Woodland Estate could be phased out. The statement read: 'We are pleased Natural Resources...
Posted 20 Jul 2018
Animal Aid is calling for a complete ban on raised laying cages used to incarcerate breeding birds used by the shooting industry.
Posted 18 Jul 2018
Scottish National Heritage (SNH) has issued licences to cull hundreds of ravens, in a five-year test in Perthshire. The purpose of this experiment is to investigate whether removing ravens has an impact on the...
Posted 25 Apr 2018
