Two ways to get active ahead of grouse shooting season
On 12 August – on the so-called Glorious Twelfth – shooters will start blasting innocent grouse from the skies.
Posted 29 Jul 2024
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Animal Aid Defends Anti-Shooting Adverts
In response to a complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) over an Animal Aid advert that ran in the Big Issue, Animal Aid has written to the ASA giving details to fully substantiate the...
Posted 05 Feb 2024
Author, activist and artist Nick Hayes showcases beautiful illustrations for Animal Aid
Nick Hayes, acclaimed author of The Book of Trespass and The Trespasser’s Companion, has created a series of beautiful illustrations for Animal Aid’s anti-shooting campaign.
Posted 18 Nov 2023
Animal Aid launches new petition calling for an end to shooting
On 1 October, the pheasant shooting season will begin. The partridge shooting season is already under way. Millions of birds will be used as live feathered targets, before the killing is over on 1 February...
Posted 25 Sep 2023
Is public money helping to fund the game-shooting industry?
Animal Aid has been conducting research into businesses that are claiming funds under Rural Payments schemes, including game bird farms and businesses that offer game bird shooting.
Posted 05 Sep 2023
Shooting live, purpose-bred birds is not sport
Today marks the start of the partridge shooting season, when these poor, innocent birds will be shot for ‘sport’.
Posted 01 Sep 2023
Help campaign against grouse shooting – order leaflets and posters today!
Posted 04 Aug 2023
Victory! Wales becomes the first country in the UK to ban snares!
On 27 June, members of the Senedd in Wales voted through a total ban on snares as part of the Agriculture (Wales) Bill!
Posted 27 Jun 2023
Closing date 20 June. NRW consultation on game bird release
Natural Resources Wales (NRW) has launched a Consultation on the release of pheasants and partridges into the countryside. Although the Consultation only addresses the release of birds rather than the ethical question of whether it...
Posted 12 Jun 2023
Bird flu discovered at Bettws Hall Game Farm in Wales
There has been an outbreak of bird flu at the largest game farm in the UK – Bettws Hall in Powys – just days after the mandatory housing measures were lifted. Many birds will have...
Posted 11 May 2023
