Animal Aid

Save the Windermere Geese

There are reports that the Lake District National Park Authority plans to kill 200 of the 1000 Canada geese who reside at Lake Windermere. The birds are blamed for ‘polluting’ the lake and causing ‘environmental damage’ as they graze. Animal Aid will fight this cull and has started a correspondence with the Authority.

Please help us by emailing the Authority to tell them that the planned cull is unethical, unnecessary and must be stopped.

Edinburgh's zoological prison

It is hardly surprising that both pandas at Edinburgh zoo have been sick with colic – no doubt as painful and distressing a condition in pandas as it is in children. The male, Yang Guang, is reported to have been sick for two weeks. His symptoms have included weakness and loss of appetite. Among the established causes of colic in children is ‘neurological over-stimulation’ – i.e. stress. How can these pandas not be stressed? Pandas’ natural habitat is a few mountain ranges in central China. They also used to roam lowland areas but farming and deforestation forced them out. In other words, yet another species has been driven to the brink of extinction through our own species’ greedy self-centredness.

An edited version of this article by Animal Aid Director Andrew Tyler has been published by The Scotsman newspaper.

Government says 'no' to massive dog vivisection breeding factory

Plans for a massive expansion of an East Yorkshire facility that breeds dogs for animal research have been rejected by the government. The local authority had earlier turned down the proposal by laboratory suppliers B&K Universal for its site at Grimston near Hull, on the grounds that the expansion would cause traffic disruption. But B&K appealed the decision. Now the government has ruled that the development cannot go ahead.