As noted by The Independent (24 April 07), the Countryside Alliance’s Countryside Rocks concert has run into a spot of bother as one of their scheduled performers, Robert Wells – the world-famous pianist, singer and...
Posted 24 Apr 2007
National campaign organisation Animal Aid, which has fought plans to cull the UK’s ruddy duck population for the past ten years, is delighted by Wigan Council’s announcement that it is suspending a local cull and...
Posted 23 Mar 2007
Youth4Animals members (Animal Aid's youth group) held a successful demonstration outside Canada House at Trafalgar Square on Saturday. Eight members, aged from 11 to 18, were joined by staff from Animal Aid's Education department and...
Posted 19 Mar 2007
Today's announcement by the government of a new 'plan to control grey squirrels' is condemned by Animal Aid as a cynical and vicious exercise in scapegoating.
Posted 23 Jan 2006
The Hunting Bill came into force at midnight on February 18, 2005. This is the story of the long campaign that made it happen:
Posted 01 Feb 2005
At long last, after years of campaigning by groups opposed to bloodsports, MPs have passed legislation to 'abolish the hunting of wild animals with hounds'.
Posted 01 Nov 2004
Two days of Scottish protests will be staged on the 13th and the 14th August against the government's decision to eradicate the entire UK population of ruddy ducks - many of them located in Scotland.
Posted 13 Aug 2003
A major report has shot holes in the government's supposed justification for its planned extermination of Britain's 6,000 ruddy ducks. The following article from The Times, 19 July 2003, by Spanish correspondent David Sharrock, reveals...
Posted 19 Jul 2003
The four leading conservation groups involved in the mass destruction of rats on Lundy island have been put to shame by a revealing new Animal Aid undercover video relating to the conduct of the 'cull'.
Posted 16 Apr 2003
As promised, the government introduced its new hunting bill in December, and - as suspected - it fell short of a total ban.
Posted 01 Mar 2003