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In the fifth in a series of monthly blogs about life on the League Against Cruel Sports’ wildlife reserves, our Head of ...
Despite both otter and mink hunting now being illegal under the Hunting Act 2004, there are now around 12 registered hunts, ...
The League Against Cruel Sports Scotland has today welcomed news that a 30-year-old man has been charged in connection with wildlife offences under the Hunting with Dogs Scotland Act. The charges ...
Trapped inside tiny, cramped cages for the day, animal welfare campaigners have been personally demonstrating the cruelty involved in breeding birds for the commercial game shooting industry. With ...
To most people, the words “stag hunting” conjure up images of medieval kings in their regal slender galloping around deer parks shooting arrows at some entrapped deer. Surely, stag hunting is an ...
Blue skies and wall-to-wall sunshine are not something that are usually associated with Exmoor, a dark skies reserve where cloud normally obscures the sky, but the first half of this April was truly ...
Bullfighting is perhaps the most well-known spectator “sport” involving the killing of animals for entertainment. For British tourists in the 1970s and 1980s, going to a bullfight was almost seen as a ...
The horrific death of Celebre D’Allen, two days after he was raced in the Grand National, has led to national animal welfare charity the League Against Cruel Sports repeating its calls for a new, ...
National animal welfare charity the League Against Cruel Sports has welcomed an announcement by the government that it will launch a consultation on the banning of trail hunting later this year. It ...
When I was asked to write a blog about the trial of the Warwickshire Hunt, I hoped to write a piece about a fox hunt, for once, being brought to justice. Unfortunately, I simply can’t do that.
As I walk down the track into the heart of the League Against Cruel Sports’ Baronsdown wildlife reserve, I am serenaded by the blissful call of a song thrush sat high in the treetops above me. His ...