It’s not often that we get to report good news, but we have just heard that the City of London Corporation has cancelled a contract which would have allowed the shooting of deer in Epping...
Posted 08 Dec 2016
On 31 October, MPs attended a debate on grouse shooting in Westminster Hall. Although many of the MPs who attended were pro-shooting, we are heartened that this issue is now of such importance that 123,076...
Posted 02 Nov 2016
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
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
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
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
Tens of thousands of pheasants are bred every year for Welsh shoots, operating on Natural Resources Wales land.
Posted 15 Dec 2015
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
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
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