Tracking animal welfare policy and news across the UK.
Register for a licence to kill deer at night by shooting during the open season.
Apply for a licence to shoot deer during the closed season or at night and find out how to report your actions.
As we celebrate World Pangolin Day, Born Free is stepping up to secure a safe future for these remarkable animals, in the vast rainforests of West-Central Africa.
Dozens of the animals in Chiang Mai region first began to show signs of illness earlier this monthA highly contagious virus is believed to have caused the deaths of 72 captive tigers in northern Thailand this month, with officials racing …
The government unveils a long awaited 10-year deer management plan that will identify priority culling areas.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the training to control and manage deer item.
Discover the key differences between Old World and New World monkeys, from nose shape to tails. Learn how to tell them apart and where they live.
Until last week, experts believed there was only one wild beaver living in Pensthorpe nature reserve, about 20 miles outside Norwich. But just in time for Valentine’s Day, two were caught on camera going for a late-night swim together and …
Exclusive: Pensthorpe was believed to be home to just one individual but pair have been filmed grooming each otherNo one knows where they came from or how they ended up in Norfolk. But one thing is certain: now, there are …
Less than a decade ago, the Balkan country had just one breeding pair of the eastern imperial species of raptor left. Now things are changing, thanks to the dogged work of conservationistsAt the start of every spring, before the trees …
In a world seemingly full of bad news, a realistic hope for nature and wildlife can persist. Dr Mark Jones encourages us all to never stop standing up for a better future.
Born Free joins calls for PM to make good on promised Hunting Act reforms.
We need your help to transform Kariba’s life and give her a forever home at Pangea, Europe’s first large-scale elephant sanctuary.
Marineland Antibes, the French government and animal welfare groups all agree on the need to rehome the listless killer whales but no one can agree whereIn a sprawling aquarium complex in south-eastern France that once drew half a million visitors …
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The radical project is an attempt to preserve wildlife in one of Europe’s most light-polluted countries, but can they persuade local people they will still feel safe?Two yellowing street lamps cast a pool of light on the dark road winding …
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Television presenters and naturalists Chris Packham and Megan McCubbin filmed a West Country fox hunt this weekend to highlight the scale of illegal fox hunting still taking place despite the ban.
The National Trust describes the Northey Island project as "a bold marine engineering feat".
The police and animal welfare charities have teamed up to tackle a disturbing crime involving teenagers killing or injuring waterfowl with powerful catapults and being fuelled by boasts on social media.
New polling data released today shows a clear majority of voters of all parties and people in the countryside as well as towns and cities support a ban on trail hunting.
A new report has found that nearly seven in ten elephants used in tourism in Thailand are still...
It wasn't meant to be this way. Sixteen months on from winning a massive majority, off the back of a manifesto that promised "to restore and protect our natural world", a government beset on all sides is using up some …
Beauval zoo in France has announced the construction of a new dolphin facility that can house between 20...
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