Shocking numbers of animals harmed in laboratories in Great Britain
A government report published today reveals how more than 2.9 million animals were used in more than 3 million experiments in Great Britain in 2021.
Posted 30 Jun 2022

Posted on the 23rd March 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 urges DEFRA to reconsider its policy on the ruddy duck.
Following a four month campaign, led by Community Action Party leader Peter Franzen, an Extraordinary Meeting of Wigan Council was held this week to debate the issue of the proposed cull of the ruddy duck population on Wigan and Leigh flashes.
At the meeting, in an amazing display of cross party unity, a motion was passed unanimously requesting that DEFRA ‘reconsiders its decisions permitting the culling of the ruddy duck population in Wigan and elsewhere in Britain. The motion also calls for the implementation and completion of a proper examination of the validity of the claimed reasons for the cull and an investigation of all the up-to-date scientific information including the research and observations of internationally renowned bird expert Tom Gullick, the County Bird Recorder for Greater Manchester, Judith Smith, the Leigh Ornithological Society, the RSPCA, Animal Aid and other wildlife organisations’.
Animal Aid will now be writing to councils across the country, urging them to follow Wigan’s lead in pressing the government to stop this cruel and senseless exercise.
Says Andrew Tyler, Director of Animal Aid:
‘The killing of ruddy ducks is yet another example of the arrogance of some old world ‘conservationists’ who believe that they can shoot and poison their way to environmental harmony. The slaughter of the ruddy ducks is a vicious, insane, massively expensive and logistically impossible exercise. It has no public support and seems designed to please only a small number of obsessives, who are interfering with nature in ways they can neither understand nor control.’
Further Information: Andrew Tyler 01732 364546
For full background: http://www.animalaid.org.uk/h/n/CAMPAIGNS/wildlife/ALL/356//
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