Forget pear trees. Today's partridges are unlikely to have seen much beyond the barren confines of their cages until they are released to be shot, writes Toni Shephard. A new investigation by the League Against Cruel Sports reveals that thousands of partridges will spend Christmas, like every other day, imprisoned on the farms that supply shooting estates.
… to be shot, writes Toni Shephard. A new investigation by the League Against Cruel …
Lacking an official body to investigate and prosecute illegal cruelty to wildlife a unique charity, the RSPCA, took on that role almost 200 years ago, writes Lesley Docksey. But now it has ruffled high-ranking feathers by pursuing cases of illegal fox-hunting, and has been forced to leave prosecutions of such cases to the Crown Prosecution Service. But will the CPS do its job?
… reviewing itself. When the RSPCA ordered an investigation of their prosecutions process by … currently taking part in the sub-committee's investigation into animal welfare. For people …
The fox-hunting season is now well under way, writes Toni Shephard. But with Cameron still pressing for a Commons vote on wrecking amendments to the Hunting Act, political controversy shows no sign of subsiding. Take, for example, the proposed lifting of the limit on number of dogs that can be used for the 'observation or study' of a wild mammal.
… proven difficult as demonstrated by a League investigation last year , which showed half of …
The 25 TB-infected hounds of the Kimblewick hunt, all put down, remind us that the lot of hunting dogs is not a happy one, writes Lesley Docksey. Unloved and at constant risk of slaughter, they are prone to a host of diseases, from bovine TB to brucellosis, neospora and botulism, which they can pass on to farm stock, humans and other dogs. They deserve better!
… them. But whether there will be a full investigation and the results made public is …
Defra's new £500,000 report on pheasant and partridge breeding is biased towards commercial shooting interests from start to finish, writes Toni Shephard. It purports to study the welfare of captive birds reared in restrictive cages, but fails to compare their lot to that of free-range birds - the only adequate baseline.
Whitewashed - the short and miserable life of game birds Toni Shephard | 9th September 2015 Activism Farming Hunting UK 9th Sepetmber 2015 shot-pheasant-cut.jpg Only a lucky few pheasants escape this …
Reporting from the frontline of environmental activism, Andrew Wasley takes a closer look at the environmental situation in Tibet.
The struggle to report on Tibet's environment Andrew Wasley | 1st May 2009 Activism Wildlife Politics And Economics Society Tibet Protests China Hunting Mining Human Rights …
If we are ever to bring bovine TB under control in Britain's cattle herd, we must begin with the main disease reservoir, writes Tom Langton: the cattle themselves. The insistence on culling badgers has little to do with disease control, and everything to do with the short term economics of the beef and dairy industries, unwilling to sacrifice an iota of production in the interests of a real solution.
… the government now accepts, requires proper investigation before considering more badger …