“On 17 May 2019, an Amendment to the Animal Improvement Act, 62 of 1998, was issued by the then Department Of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. In this amendment, lion, cheetah, rhino and giraffe have been added to the list of ‘farmable animals’, along with almost...

DEFRA and Natural England appear to have learnt nothing from the previous badger culls!Ministers have approved the addition of 11 new cull areas and reauthorization of the 29 cull areas from last year. Up to 64,000 badgers could be killed this autumn. Last year’s cull...

You’ve gotta love an octopus! Octopuses are the most fascinating and intriguing creatures you are likely to ever come across. Outwardly they are difficult to describe other than their obvious eight arms. But inwardly they are renowned for their high intelligence, blue...

Grouse shooting has to be banned in the UK!The shooting fraternity has kept themselves back in the shadows since hunting was banned at the beginning of 2005. By doing so they seemed to have been left alone.Well not quite but it seems that fox hunting has been more to...

Allowing the hunt’s hounds to kill defenceless fox cubs is to ‘give them a taste of blood’!That’s it in a nutshell. The vile activity that fox hunting wants to keep covered up and out of sight. It’s been going on since hunting foxes began. The hunts meet...