The new Hunting and Shooting Minister, Jim Paice, has withdrawn a new Code of Practice for 'game bird' production that would have outlawed battery cages for breeding pheasants. It has been replaced by a watered...
Posted 06 Jul 2010
One of the first decisions by the new Hunting and Shooting Minister, Jim Paice, has been to withdraw a new Code of Practice for ‘game bird’ production (made under the Animal Welfare Act 2006). The...
Posted 07 Jun 2010
Animal Aid’s new publication, The Trouble with Shooting, is a short and informative guide for anyone who wants to know more about the mass-production of pheasants, partridges and ducks, destined to become feathered targets for...
Posted 30 Apr 2010
After more than six years of campaigning and undercover exposés by Animal Aid of battery cages used for 'game birds', the government has today issued a new industry Code of Practice that effectively outlaws the...
Posted 15 Mar 2010
The government-appointed Working Group charged with setting rules for how ‘game birds’ will in future be produced for shooting has caused widespread dismay this week by publishing a Code of Practice that fails to outlaw...
Posted 26 Nov 2009
A new Animal Aid report charts the growing backlash against grouse shooting, and attacks the Tory-led coalition government for the way in which it has ‘increased the flow of public money in the moor owners’...
Posted 27 Sep 2009
On Monday 28 September at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton, Sports Minister Gerry Sutcliffe is due to speak at a fringe meeting, which is being hosted by the British Association for Shooting and Conservation...
Posted 21 Sep 2009
The shooting season has just started (1 September), but very few people in Britain will appreciate that, in addition to the 45 million partridges and pheasants mass-produced to be shot every year, almost one million...
Posted 04 Sep 2009
How does the Countryside Alliance do it? Two days before the start of the four months grouse shooting season, it has released the results of a questionnaire poll that ‘clearly shows that grouse shooting is...
Posted 11 Aug 2009
One of the Queen’s gamekeepers, Robbie Elliott, is to be prosecuted under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, after two badgers were killed in snares at the Balmoral estate. The offence carries a maximum penalty...
Posted 27 May 2009