An independent scientific assessment of last year's pilot badger culls in parts of Gloucestershire and Somerset has concluded that they were not effective. And that more than 5 per cent of the shot badgers took...
Posted 28 Feb 2014
Animal Aid has obtained an official document revealing that the pregnant sheep experiment recently featured on our Victims of Charity website – and which was financially supported by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) – was...
Posted 25 Feb 2014
More than 7,000 wild animals were killed on the Windsor Estate during 2013, according to a Freedom of Information request by campaign group, Animal Aid. While the figures for January were not recorded due to...
Posted 24 Feb 2014
Pregnant sheep surgically mutilated Unborn lambs brain-damaged Cambridge University experiment part-funded by British Heart Foundation
Posted 13 Feb 2014
Following the killing of Marius the giraffe in a Danish zoo, Animal Aid’s Director, Andrew Tyler, wrote an opinion piece for The Mirror describing the killing as ‘business as usual for the modern zoo’ and...
Posted 11 Feb 2014
Animal Aid has pledged to campaign more robustly than ever against the large-scale suffering involved in the breeding and use, in biomedical experiments, of genetically modified mice. The undertaking comes in response to a decision...
Posted 11 Feb 2014
Nearly four years ago, the government pledged to deliver a plan for reducing the number of animals used in experiments. Specifically, it said it would ‘end the testing of household products on animals and work...
Posted 07 Feb 2014
Researchers in China have used a new genome editing procedure to create genetically modified (GM) macaques. These are the latest victims of a growing scientific trend that is based on faulty, over-simplistic science and has...
Posted 31 Jan 2014
Last night’s (28 January) BBC report from Oxford University’s animal laboratory presented the public with a dishonest, overwhelmingly positive picture of animal research. The BBC now has a pressing duty to show the other side...
Posted 29 Jan 2014
The government is continuing its cull of ruddy ducks. Thousands have already been shot and, according to reports today, there are just 50 or so left in the UK. The cost of shooting the remaining...
Posted 22 Jan 2014