New figures released today by leading national animal welfare charity the League Against Cruel Sports show the shocking scale ...

A mature red deer stag is the UK’s largest land mammal and as the days begin to shorten and temperatures start to drop, a stag’s thoughts turn to the breeding season and the annual rut. Stags will ...

Hounds from a fox hunt ran riot in the Somerset village of Oake earlier this month, forcing a primary school to evacuate children from their playground and shelter indoors, and scaring local residents ...

Out of control hounds from a fox hunt have been caught on camera running amok through an idyllic Cotswold village popular with tourists. The Heythrop Hunt hounds were seen on Friday morning [October ...

The League Against Cruel Sports and USPCA have welcomed the launch of a Private Members Bill to bring about a ban on hunting with dogs, tabled by John Blair MLA. Already illegal in England, Wales and ...

Campaigners from national animal welfare charity the League Against Cruel Sports were in Liverpool today [Tuesday] calling on the public to back plans to strengthen fox hunting laws and to end this ...

Campaigners from national animal welfare charity the League Against Cruel Sports were in Leeds today [Wednesday] calling on the public to back plans to strengthen fox hunting laws and to end this ...

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Traditional hunting involving the chasing and killing of animals, was banned by the Hunting Act 2004 in England and Wales, and the Protection of Wild Mammals Act 2002 in Scotland. After the ban, ...

Greyhound racing is a competitive ‘sport’ in which greyhounds race around an oval track in pursuit of a mechanical hare. Why should greyhound racing should be banned? Greyhound racing is cruel from ...

Snares are used extensively on ‘game’ bird shoots. A snare is a thin wire noose set to trap animals which some people view as being a pest or threat, usually foxes and rabbits. These animal traps are ...