Animal Aid is saddened by reports that this year’s badger cull will include five new cull zones (South Devon, North Devon, North Cornwall, West Dorset, and South Herefordshire). The badger cull is being pushed by...
Posted 23 Aug 2016
Tate Modern has recently installed a piece by Hélio Oiticica, entitled Tropicália, which features two macaws in a small cage.
Posted 18 Jul 2016
Ignoring scientific evidence and public outrage, the government is set to continue culling badgers in nine English counties: Cheshire, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Somerset, Worcestershire and Wiltshire.
Posted 09 May 2016
It has been reported in the media today that the incidents of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in cattle increases where those cattle are intensively reared.
Posted 11 Nov 2015
The grey squirrel is one of the most persecuted wild animals in Britain today. It has been blamed for vast numbers of devastating crimes – from environmental destruction to the near extinction of the red...
Posted 01 Nov 2015
Reliable reports suggest that this year’s round of badger culls are to end today (October 14). The culls, which were taking place in West Somerset, West Gloucestershire and Dorset, were intended to kill up to...
Posted 14 Oct 2015
The government has today (28 August) announced the scale of a new round of badger killing as the central plank of its anti-bovine TB campaign. In West Somerset a maximum of 524 badgers can be...
Posted 28 Aug 2015
David Cameron had intended that today – Wednesday 15 July – he would finally be able to dismember the 2004 Hunting Act and give free rein to his bloodsports chums to hound and kill wild...
Posted 15 Jul 2015
A Home for Minty, by Joyce Moss On 14th March this year, Scott Passmore, founder of animal rescue charity A Wild Life with Animals, was called in the evening to a driveway in the Forest. The...
Posted 26 Jun 2015
There are animal-friendly MPs on all sides of the House but the reality is that the past five years have been dreadful for animals, and the next five could get much worse.
Posted 12 Jun 2015