14 May Historic Progress For Animals Announced
This week has been an historic moment for animal welfare in the UK with plans for key reforms announced by government, including legal recognition of animal sentience and a ban on live exports....
29 Apr The Lies and Half-Truths That Keep Factory Farming Afloat
As the United Nations Food Systems Summit approaches in September this year, Peter Stevenson OBE, our Chief Policy Advisor, shares his thoughts on why factory farming so dominates animal agriculture. Peter has worked in the animal welfare movement for almost three decades, and played a leading...
22 Apr Restoring Life On Earth
The focus of this year’s global Earth Day is on how we can restore our Earth. Between 20th and 22nd April, people in 190 countries will be organising events and promoting ways we can help heal the damage we have caused to our planet....
31 Mar The Deadly Cruelty Of Live Animal Exports
You'd be forgiven for thinking that it's just designer furniture, cereal, cotton, oil, gas and miscellaneous gifts like Rubik's cubes, that have been caught up in the modern day, marine traffic jam in the Suez Canal. ...
27 Mar If fish had fur
When I look back over three decades of progress on the way we treat animals, it has been heartening to see how attitudes and understanding has evolved to insist on better treatment....
22 Mar Water and Welfare
Today, 22nd March 2021, is the United Nations World Water Day. It's about raising awareness of the value of water and the importance of protecting this vital resource on which we all depend....
03 Mar For the love of life
Today, 3rd March 2021, is United Nations World Wildlife Day: a hugely special day to celebrate the wonder of the world’s wild animals and plants....
28 Feb Why Pigs and Polar Bears Don’t Mix
Saturday 27th February is International Polar Bear Day. A day to celebrate these magnificent animals whose plight has drawn the world’s attention to the threat of climate change....
20 Feb Pangolins and Pandemics
It would be hard to find another mammal more persecuted, or more bewitching, than the pangolin. This day, 20th February, is World Pangolin Day. An opportunity for us all to focus the world's attention on the tragic circumstances surrounding this unique, beautiful creature. Circumstances brought about...
04 Feb Factory farming has to end
New Report Shows Intensification Drives Loss of Wildlife - In a world struggling to get to grips with Covid, you could be forgiven for perhaps thinking that changing the way we farm and eat would be the last thing on the agenda....