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
Every year, more than 40 million pheasants are intensively reared to be released for shooting … and the four-month killing season starts today. Animal Aid is as determined as ever to build support for a...
Posted 01 Oct 2015
We are often fed rhetoric from the shooting and hunting fraternities claiming that there is an ever growing interest in their pastimes. However, a new survey conducted by Natural England (NE) shatters this carefully cultivated...
Posted 04 Sep 2015
In 2009, Defra commissioned a major study, costing more than £420,000, into whether commonly-used metal battery cages can meet the welfare needs of ‘gamebirds’ used for breeding. Astonishingly, the report has only just been published,...
Posted 24 Aug 2015
From the 12 August, a minority of wealthy, idle ‘sporting’ types will be ferried to grouse butts on some of the country’s most beautiful upland areas. There, they will laze until beaters scare hundreds of...
Posted 31 Jul 2015
On 12 August, a minority of wealthy, idle ‘sportsmen’ will be ferried to grouse butts on some of the country’s most beautiful upland areas. There, they will laze until beaters scare hundreds of grouse into...
Posted 31 Jul 2015
The body of evidence against the ‘management techniques’ employed by grouse moor owners continues to grow. The latest attack, this week, comes from the RSPB Centre for Conservation Science, with the launch of a damning...
Posted 24 Jul 2015
The Animal Aid Battle Bus takes to the road this month to reveal what the shooting industry would rather keep hidden from the public.
Posted 18 Jun 2015
New undercover film of caged partridges released today by Animal Aid reveals what the national campaign group describes as an animal production system that is ‘as cruelly oppressive as any we have witnessed in this...
Posted 18 Jun 2015
Several newspapers have reported the discovery of a pile of dead animals – including pheasants, foxes, crows and rabbits – on the outskirts of woodland in Hertfordshire.
Posted 27 May 2015