The League Against Cruel Sports uses research and our own investigations to inform the work we do. On these pages you will find a selection of reports, scientific research, campaign materials and publications which we have produced over the last few years.

You will also find links to download all the issues of Protect, the League's magazine.

Please take a look around, and if there is further information you require on one of our specialist subjects, please contact us.

HUNTING

• Observed to death - Report about illegal stag hunting
• Research Observe Kill - Stag hunting report summary
• The conservation problems of hunting with dogs during the ban in England and Wales

• Drag hunting, "clean boot" and trail hunting
• Help us expose the Myth of Trail Hunting (2018)
• Hunting with dogs: past, present but no future
• A case against hunting with dogs

• The Burns report: hunting with dogs
• Vets against hunting report
• Hunting with dogs: illegal and indefensible

• Hunting Act report (2014)
• Report: hunts and artificial earths (2011)
• Kidnapped for cruelty: the truth behind claims that hunting is ‘wildlife management’

• The impact of hunting with dogs on wildlife and conservation (2017)
• Myths about hunting - References
• Response to flushing exemption amend

• Let's really stop fox hunting in Scotland - The Lord Bonomy Review (2016)
• The utility of killing foxes in Scotland

• Hunting with hounds and the spread of disease (2017)
• Briefing about bovine TB outbreak in hunt kennels
• Fabulous fox facts
• Foxycology infographic: fascinating fox facts

• Hunting Report 2009/2010
• Hunting Report 2010/2011
• Hunting Report 2011/2012

SHOOTING

• Shooting animals for sport: worth less
• From cage to grave
• From cage to grave - Briefing

• The case against bird shooting
• Troubled by the shoot? A guide to the legal rights of those affected by shooting
• An Inglorious Menu - All dishes come cruelty guaranteed 

• League response to Countryside Alliance and National Gamekeeper Association
• Evidence for House of Commons petitions committees inquiry into driven grouse

• The intensification of grouse moor management in Scotland
• Review of the PACEC 2006 & 2014 reports on sport shooting impacts - Executive summary
• Review of the PACEC 2006 & 2014 reports on sport shooting impacts - Main Report

DOG FIGHTING

• Dog fighting and serious crime
• Dog fighting report - Middlesex University
• Betrayal of trust: the tragedy of dog fighting

• Dog fighting - Advice for the veterinary community (2017)
• Dog fighting - Advice for law enforcement (2018)
• Dog fighting - Advice for rescue centres (2018)
• Project Bloodline - Tackling dog fighting

GREYHOUND RACING

• Report: The state of greyhound racing in Great Britain
• Greyhound report - Executive summary
• Greyhound Report - Briefing

• GREY2K USA worldwide dog racing fact sheet (2017)
• GREY2K USA worldwide summary of major reports on dog racing (2017)

SNARING

• The problems of snaring in the UK and its alternatives (2017)
• Snares Report (2013)
• Snares factsheet

• Cruel and indiscriminate: snare report for Scotland
• Blood on the wire: snaring in Scotland
• Still blood on the wire
• Tightening the noose: an investigation into snaring in Northern Ireland

BADGER CULL

• League's history with badgers
• Backing badgers - Myths about the badger cull refuted
• Response to DEFRA consultation on badger cull licensing (2016)

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

• Wildlife crime report (2013)

• Wild about killing: report on how British travel companies promote trophy hunting
• The myth of trophy hunting as conservation

• Poster 'I am fox' from campaign to protect the Hunting act
• Poster 'I am stag' from campaign to protect the Hunting act
• Poster 'I am hare' from campaign to protect  the Hunting act

• I choose culture, not cruelty: postcard against bullfighting

• Norfolk Wildlife Trust - Statement about hare shot

• A guide to gifts in wills

PROTECT MAGAZINES AND IMPACT REPORT

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