Political animal
There are animal-friendly MPs on all sides of the House but the reality is that the past five years have been dreadful for animals, and the next five could get much worse.
Posted 12 Jun 2015
News
Government kills parakeets
Animal Aid campaigns for all wildlife and, for several years, we have worked alongside local campaigners to try to stop the government ‘cull’ of a tiny number of monk parakeets living in the wild around...
Posted 29 Sep 2014
United Utilities calls off the cull!
Campaign by Bird Lover and Animal Aid Successful When bird lover David Kennedy discovered that Canada geese were being shot at Lingley Mere – a lake owned by Warrington-based United Utilities – he felt he had...
Posted 19 Sep 2014
Culling badgers ‘won’t control Bovine TB’
Computer modelling by the universities of Warwick and Cambridge has accurately reproduced the spread of bovine TB and the number of cases. Furthermore, the study, which has been published in Nature, has concluded that culling...
Posted 03 Jul 2014
‘They just want to cull badgers’
A member of the Independent Expert Panel – the body charged with assessing the humaneness and effectiveness of the badger culls – has spoken out strongly against the government’s culling policy.
Posted 24 Jun 2014
Media circus in a panda prison
Last year’s media hype surrounding the mating habits of two pandas has once again rekindled. The media today (31st March) is reporting that Tian Tian’s ‘window of receptivity’ is approaching, and that her hormone levels...
Posted 31 Mar 2014
Good news for the Hunting Act
The Prime Minister has confirmed that the Hunting Act will not now be changed to allow more than two dogs to ‘flush out’ foxes.
Posted 26 Mar 2014
It’s official: badger culls were ‘ineffective and failed humaneness test’
An independent scientific assessment of last year's pilot badger culls in parts of Gloucestershire and Somerset has concluded that they were not effective. And that more than 5 per cent of the shot badgers took...
Posted 28 Feb 2014
Massacre at the Windsor Estate: 7,000 wild animals killed in one year
More than 7,000 wild animals were killed on the Windsor Estate during 2013, according to a Freedom of Information request by campaign group, Animal Aid. While the figures for January were not recorded due to...
Posted 24 Feb 2014
Marius the giraffe
Following the killing of Marius the giraffe in a Danish zoo, Animal Aid’s Director, Andrew Tyler, wrote an opinion piece for The Mirror describing the killing as ‘business as usual for the modern zoo’ and...
Posted 11 Feb 2014