You are helping to end fox hunting
Thanks to donors’ support of our campaigning and public affairs work in recent years, we are now on the brink of ending hunting with dogs in England and Wales for good.
Together, our work has resulted in the government launching a 12-week consultation to ban trail hunting, the discredited excuse used by fox hunts to conceal their chasing and killing of foxes, from you, the police and the courts.
This is a pivotal moment for animal welfare
The consultation is the most important step in consigning the brutal bloodsport of fox hunting to the history books since the original fox hunting ban came into force 21 years ago. It’s not just about banning trail hunting – we’re also calling for the loopholes in the Hunting Act to be removed, ‘accidental’ hunting to be outlawed, and jail sentences to be introduced to ensure there is an effective deterrent for would-be hunters.
Campaigning will keep the consultation in the spotlight.
Our teams will take to the streets up and down the country over the next 12 weeks, urging the public to take part. We’ll also run digital campaigns calling on the public to reply to the consultation.
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A generous gift today can help to bring as many people as possible on board with responding to the consultation – which will be vital in ending trail or fox hunting.
This is the best opportunity we have had in a generation. Let’s take it.
Let’s stop the barbaric blood sport of hunting with dogs for good.
Wales and Scotland pass landmark bills to ban greyhound racing
Thanks to you, we have been able to help achieve two remarkable victories by successfully campaigning for the dangerous sport of greyhound racing to be banned in both Wales and Scotland.
Greyhound racing is cruel from the cradle to the grave, with large number of dogs dying while racing or getting badly injured. The greyhound racing industry’s own figures show a staggering 1,357 greyhounds died at trackside and 35,168 were injured between 2017 and 2024.
Racing around an oval track at fast speeds puts a huge strain on the greyhounds’ bodies and is inherently dangerous. But now, with your help we have campaigned with a range of coalition partners and ensured two landmark bills passed - in both the Welsh and Scottish parliaments - which will end this cruel sport for good.
This was down to your support, the efforts of the public affairs and campaign teams, and our intelligence team who have been investigating the negligence and malpractice found within parts of the greyhound industry.
The next step is to call on the UK Government to follow suit and ban greyhound racing in England.
With your help, and together with animal lovers across the country, we can carry on winning the battles that will allow animals such as greyhounds to enjoy lives free of pain and misery.
Standing up for the horses being raced to their deaths
Your support allowed us to campaign on behalf of the horses being pushed beyond their limits – and raced to their deaths at the Cheltenham Festival.
When four horses tragically died while racing this year, we sprang into action and ran online campaigns, filling the media with the message that the death toll needs to end.
You helped get the message out there that there should be a boycott, by both the public and businesses, of next year’s Cheltenham Festival – with calls for people to not attend, to stop betting on the races or watching the ITV coverage and accompanying advertising.
This government promised the biggest boost for animal welfare in a generation and now they need to deliver – by introducing tighter safety measures in horse racing and by banning the cruel use of the whip.
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Spring has Sprung
Each year we wait with eager anticipation to see what wildlife appears on the League’s wildlife reserves, which donors help to maintain through their generous gifts.
After just a few days of warm weather, spring has already been kickstarted into action Overwintering butterflies have woken from their torpor and are basking in the sunshine, and queen bumblebees that have emerged from below ground are busy seeking out suitable breeding sites.
Birds that had flown down from more northerly latitudes for the winter have moved on and now the birds that flew south have started to return. Chiffchaff are usually the first bird to come back and their monotonous call is always a welcome sound. We hope that some of the turtle doves that were released on the Cove Down Wilding project will return; their purring was once a common sound in the countryside. Thanks to our supporters, we are able to offer conditions that can help their numbers recover.
At a time when so much feels uncertain, the difference you are making is clear — helping protect wildlife and ensuring these reserves continue to thrive.
