This week (17th-21st June) sees Royal Ascot unfurl: an event in the flat-racing calendar which has become shrouded in associations with ‘royalty’, ‘glamour’ and ‘elitism’. However, behind this ...

This week (17th-21st June) sees Royal Ascot unfurl: an event in the flat-racing calendar which has become shrouded in associations with ‘royalty’, ‘glamour’ and ‘elitism’. However, behind this ...

Tomorrow is the Greyhound Derby Final, the biggest event in the greyhound racing calendar. But this is not a day to celebrate ...

An article in The Independent this week (Tuesday 10) shares world-first footage of egg-laying hens being suffocated to death in gas chambers. The footage, filmed at an RSPCA Assured slaughterhouse, ...

Animal protections have advanced encouragingly in recent decades, but one group of species has been almost entirely absent ...

Animal Aid has named over three thousand race horses who have been killed as a result of racing on British racecourses. This Friday and Saturday (6th and 7th June) is the Epsom Derby Festival – a ...

Fur Free Britain, a coalition of animal protection groups, handed in a petition today calling for a ban on the import and sale of fur in the UK. In 2002, the UK became the first country to ban the ...

With the recent 'unseasonably' warm spell, symptomatic of a changing climate, and elevated temperatures predicted to become more frequent and extreme, it's more crucial than ever to be prepared to ...

Our brand-new campaign ‘Killing our Countryside: It’s time to ban shooting’, which calls for a total ban on the production and “sport” shooting of live birds for entertainment, has been launched by ...

Photo by Saad Walid on Unsplash This seems fitting as tens of millions of animals have suffered and died in British laboratories, and globally, before that date and ever since. In 1979, animal ...