Take action for game birds
In a few days – 1 October – the pheasant shooting season will commence.
Posted 27 Sep 2019
News
Labour commits to phasing out animal testing
The Labour Party has today (August 28) published its Animal Welfare Manifesto, which contains a wide range of progressive measures.
Posted 28 Aug 2019
Live chicks ground up – Animal Aid investigation reveals yet more horror from the game bird shooting industry
Animal Aid has captured exclusive footage from a game bird hatchery (Heart of England Game Farm, Warwickshire) which shows hatching and live chicks being tossed into a macerator – a high-speed grinder.
Posted 11 Aug 2019
Shooting industry under fire from all sides
Posted 30 Jul 2019
Animal Aid bus ads call for ban on cruel cages
Animal Aid is running a series of bus adverts in central London, asking the Environment Secretary to ban cruel cages for breeding game birds.
Posted 01 May 2019
Victory for birds and the people of Wales – as Court rejects shoot lobby’s challenge
Animal Aid is celebrating a decision by Cardiff Administrative Court to uphold a ban on shooting birds on public land in Wales, despite a legal challenge by shooting lobby groups.
Posted 12 Mar 2019
Game industry reacts to discovery of dumped pheasants
In response to an article in the Times on the discovery of dumped pheasants, the manager of Bettws Hall Game Farm was quoted (18 January) as saying: ‘I hope they are taken to task by...
Posted 18 Jan 2019
Take action for game birds
Every year, around 50 million pheasants and partridges are purpose-bred for the shooting industry. Animal Aid continues to call for a ban on the production of birds for ‘sport’ shooting. But as an important interim...
Posted 26 Oct 2018
Undercover footage reveals suffering of wild birds in cruel trap
We have just released a short film using undercover footage shot at a game farm, showing the suffering endured by birds in Larsen traps. We set a long-running camera filming two Larsen traps at Bonson...
Posted 22 Sep 2018
Victory for pheasants as Natural Resources Wales bans shooting on its land
National Resources Wales has confirmed that it will stop leasing out public land for shooting.
Posted 20 Sep 2018