In a letter to the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) , the Badger Trust has outlines the legal challenge it will pursue if Defra does not abandon its plans to kill badgers.
Posted 10 Feb 2012
It is hardly surprising that both pandas at Edinburgh zoo have been sick with colic – no doubt as painful and distressing a condition in pandas as it is in children. The male, Yang Guang,...
Posted 01 Feb 2012
Campaigners on the Isle of Dogs have persuaded Tower Hamlets Council to stop the cull of wild monk parakeets. The Council has now formally requested that Defra stop its cull, a step that the government...
Posted 27 Jan 2012
Despite having forced racing’s regulator to twice dilute the new whipping rules introduced on 10 October 2011, jockeys’ representatives meet tomorrow (Friday, 20 January) with the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) in what appears to be...
Posted 19 Jan 2012
Today’s national newspapers carried (often uncritical) reports of the birth of two macaque monkeys, whose genetic material originates from six ‘parents’. Known as chimeras, for each monkey, diverse parent cells were brought together to create...
Posted 06 Jan 2012
At a packed meeting last night (19 December 2011), Oxford councillors voted against plans to introduce a bylaw that would allow companies to operate horse-drawn carriages in the city centre.
Posted 20 Dec 2011
Animal Aid’s Director, Andrew Tyler, and Horse Racing Consultant, Dene Stansall, will be in Oxford today to fight a proposal to introduce horse-drawn carriages to the centre centre. They will be addressing the full council,...
Posted 19 Dec 2011
This is a list of sanctuaries with large and/or farmed animals but there are many, many more sanctuaries out there doing great work.
Posted 19 Dec 2011
The decision by Caroline Spelman to approve the culling of badgers in two English pilot areas represents a miserable capitulation to a cattle farming industry that is intent on pursuing abusive practices that lead inexorably...
Posted 14 Dec 2011
The Scottish Government has passed a law of Criminal Vicarious Liability to ensure that those who direct or turn a blind eye towards the persecution of birds of prey can be held to account by...
Posted 12 Dec 2011