Nearly half of poll respondents want grouse shooting banned
Nearly half of British people favour a ban on grouse shooting in the UK, according to a YouGov poll commissioned by national campaign group Animal Aid.
Posted 11 Oct 2016
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‘Graveyard’ installed at Welsh Assembly to oppose pheasant shooting on public land
Animal Aid installed a 'graveyard' for animals at the Welsh Assembly in Cardiff on Saturday 24 September, calling for an end to pheasant shooting in the national forest.
Posted 24 Sep 2016
Petition launched calling on Natural Resources Wales to ban shooting on its land
Leading animal protection group Animal Aid has launched an online petition calling on the Welsh Government to ban shooting on Welsh public land.
Posted 26 Aug 2016
Grouse shooting: Unnatural. Uncontrolled. Unkind.
With just two weeks to go until the start of the grouse shooting season – the so-called Glorious Twelfth – a short, hard-hitting film, revealing the destructive and cruel nature of grouse shooting, has been...
Posted 27 Jul 2016
Natural Resources Wales supports pheasant shoots
Tens of thousands of pheasants are bred every year for Welsh shoots, operating on Natural Resources Wales land.
Posted 15 Dec 2015
Shooting’s lethal addiction to lead shot
A new report from Oxford University has shown that discarded lead shot kills around 100,000 wetland birds every year – and that eating birds contaminated with lead shot is worse for human health than previously...
Posted 26 Nov 2015
October 1: Start of the pheasant shooting season
Every year, more than 40 million pheasants are intensively reared to be released for shooting … and the four-month killing season starts today. Animal Aid is as determined as ever to build support for a...
Posted 01 Oct 2015
Bloodsports’ tiny following
We are often fed rhetoric from the shooting and hunting fraternities claiming that there is an ever growing interest in their pastimes. However, a new survey conducted by Natural England (NE) shatters this carefully cultivated...
Posted 04 Sep 2015
Animal Aid’s response to Defra-commissioned report on game bird cages
In 2009, Defra commissioned a major study, costing more than £420,000, into whether commonly-used metal battery cages can meet the welfare needs of ‘gamebirds’ used for breeding. Astonishingly, the report has only just been published,...
Posted 24 Aug 2015
United against grouse shooting
From the 12 August, a minority of wealthy, idle ‘sporting’ types will be ferried to grouse butts on some of the country’s most beautiful upland areas. There, they will laze until beaters scare hundreds of...
Posted 31 Jul 2015