Rats have been getting a lot of bad press recently. Stories have been circulating about ‘giant’ rats, cannibal rats and rat ‘invasions’. These are often exaggerated and prey on people’s...
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In December 2019, licences previously issued to release rescued grey squirrels were revoked. This has forced wildlife rescuers to make unnecessary decisions about the fate of orphaned and injured squirrels,...
Across the country, pheasants and partridges who are used for breeding purposes are enduring a life of misery, confined in cages for the whole of their productive lives. They need...
Muswell Hill Golf Course has said that they will no longer consider culling foxes as a solution to ongoing management of foxes on the Club’s grounds....
On 16th April, Natural England posted a blog announcing, and attempting to justify, that they have issued licences to take peregrine falcon chicks from their nest, for use in falconry....
It is being widely reported today that the government has announced that it intends to phase out the badger cull....
Animal Aid have reached out to Wimbledon Park Golf Club following reports of a cull, urging them to take culling off the table as an option for dealing with conflict...
As reported in today’s Independent, TV naturalist, Chris Packham has urged supermarkets to cut their ties with suppliers that keep breeding game birds in raised laying cages....
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Animal Aid recently organised a joint letter to Environment Secretary Theresa Villiers to speak out against the revocation of licences to rescue and return grey squirrels to the wild. ...