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The true history of the grey squirrel in Britain

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

WHO announces processed meat is carcinogenic

The World Health Organisation has announced that processed meat is ‘carcinogenic to humans’, ranking it amongst some of the most cancer-causing substances in the world, adding further weight to Animal Aid’s call for it to...

Posted 23 Oct 2015

End of this year’s badger slaughter

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

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

Bovine TB: a new round of badger slaughter begins

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