Help raise awareness about cruel grouse shooting
The grouse shooting season starts on 12 August. Can you help our campaign by leafleting or organising a street stall?
Posted 04 Jul 2017
News
Bird flu found at ‘game bird’ farm investigated by Animal Aid in 2007
In addition to the discovery of bird flu at a ‘game bird’ farm in Lancashire, which was the subject of undercover investigations by national campaign group, Animal Aid, in 2005 and 2007, the BBC has...
Posted 25 Jan 2017
City of London Say No to Commercial Shooting in Epping Forest!
It’s not often that we get to report good news, but we have just heard that the City of London Corporation has cancelled a contract which would have allowed the shooting of deer in Epping...
Posted 08 Dec 2016
Protestors call for a ban on grouse shooting
On 31 October, MPs attended a debate on grouse shooting in Westminster Hall. Although many of the MPs who attended were pro-shooting, we are heartened that this issue is now of such importance that 123,076...
Posted 02 Nov 2016
Nearly half of poll respondents want grouse shooting banned
Nearly half of British people favour a ban on grouse shooting in the UK, according to a YouGov poll commissioned by national campaign group Animal Aid.
Posted 11 Oct 2016
‘Graveyard’ installed at Welsh Assembly to oppose pheasant shooting on public land
Animal Aid installed a 'graveyard' for animals at the Welsh Assembly in Cardiff on Saturday 24 September, calling for an end to pheasant shooting in the national forest.
Posted 24 Sep 2016
Petition launched calling on Natural Resources Wales to ban shooting on its land
Leading animal protection group Animal Aid has launched an online petition calling on the Welsh Government to ban shooting on Welsh public land.
Posted 26 Aug 2016
Grouse shooting: Unnatural. Uncontrolled. Unkind.
With just two weeks to go until the start of the grouse shooting season – the so-called Glorious Twelfth – a short, hard-hitting film, revealing the destructive and cruel nature of grouse shooting, has been...
Posted 27 Jul 2016
Natural Resources Wales supports pheasant shoots
Tens of thousands of pheasants are bred every year for Welsh shoots, operating on Natural Resources Wales land.
Posted 15 Dec 2015
Shooting’s lethal addiction to lead shot
A new report from Oxford University has shown that discarded lead shot kills around 100,000 wetland birds every year – and that eating birds contaminated with lead shot is worse for human health than previously...
Posted 26 Nov 2015