The government-appointed Working Group charged with setting rules for how ‘game birds’ will in future be produced for shooting has caused widespread dismay this week by publishing a Code of...
News
Stay updated on animal rights in the UK with Animal Aid. Explore our latest campaign updates, investigations, and stories promoting compassion.
A new Animal Aid report charts the growing backlash against grouse shooting, and attacks the Tory-led coalition government for the way in which it has ‘increased the flow of public...
Animal Aid has gathered unique undercover footage from Ceredigion, Wales showing mallard ducks being reared in appalling conditions for the shoot industry....
How does the Countryside Alliance do it? Two days before the start of the four months grouse shooting season, it has released the results of a questionnaire poll that ‘clearly...
As the ‘gamebird’ industry steps up its efforts to promote the ‘sport shooting’ of birds as a wholesome and natural means of food production, a damning new report reveals the...
The government’s official advisory body on farmed animal welfare has today launched a devastating attack on the systems used to mass-produce pheasants and partridges for ‘sport’ shooting. ...
An East Midlands television programme was screened on 7 November about the cruelty of game bird shooting. Inside Out is a half hour regional current affairs programme which presents matters...
A former senior officer with Britain’s leading shooting lobby group has revealed that up to 40 per cent of all birds shot at for sport are wounded rather than killed...
Animal Aid's 'Feathering Their Nests' (2002) was the first exposé of fraud and tax evasion in the shooting industry. Since 2000, we have submitted numerous reports to taxation agencies detailing...
A government investigation into tax evasion by the shooting industry has uncovered evidence of non-payment of VAT that could amount to more than £20 million....