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
The government is continuing its cull of ruddy ducks. Thousands have already been shot and, according to reports today, there are just 50 or so left in the UK. The cost of shooting the remaining...
Posted 22 Jan 2014
Just days after Brian May’s legal challenge to halt the cull in Gloucestershire was denied by the High Court, comes news that the government has abandoned the cull. Marksmen have failed to kill enough animals...
Posted 29 Nov 2013
The controversial badger cull extension presently underway in the South West of England faces a new legal challenge with a High Court action filed today (26th Nov) by Brian May’s Save Me organisation.
Posted 26 Nov 2013
An article in the Wall Street Journal details the campaign to protect the feral population of monk parakeets living in the UK.
Posted 13 Nov 2013
Scientists at the University of Exeter have studied badgers to see how their social interaction may spread bovine TB. They found that TB-infected badgers tended to be shunned within their social groups and were more...
Posted 22 Oct 2013
Today, Defra Minister Owen Paterson declared the trial badger cull in Somerset successful, but only because the official estimate of badger numbers was sharply reduced in the last few days.
Posted 09 Oct 2013
As cold weather approaches, wild animals may search for warmth and sustenance within our homes.
Posted 03 Oct 2013
The government’s Chief Veterinary Officer has finally admitted that he cannot define ‘humaneness’, despite the fact that the badger cull is being carried out specifically to test for it. Nigel Gibbens wrote: 'There are, however,...
Posted 16 Sep 2013
The government and the NFU are creating more vegetarians and vegans with their deeply unpopular badger cull. At Animal Aid, we have received many messages from people who say that the cull has opened their...
Posted 09 Sep 2013