Research & Publications

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

SHOOTING

DOG FIGHTING

GREYHOUND RACING

SNARING

BADGER CULL

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Wildlife crime report (2013)

I choose culture, not cruelty: postcard against bullfighting

Norfolk Wildlife Trust - Statement about hare shot

A guide to gifts in wills

PROTECT MAGAZINE

Cover of Protect magazine (issue 21), featuring a stag

Latest

3rd November - Leafletting in Worcester on the truth of trail hunting

With hunting season starting on the 1st November and many hunts hunting in Worcestershire, the League Against Cruel Sports supporter group are leafletting in Worcester city centre on the truth of trail hunting.
10th November - Badger Trust Symposium

Our Director of Investigations, Martin Sims, will be speaking at the Badger Trust Symposium on 10th November.
Why don’t hunters change to drag or clean boot hunting?

Why is it that so many hunters insist on chasing foxes instead of switching to a non-lethal alternative? Nick Weston, our Head of Campaigns, explains what clean boot, or blood hound hunting and drag hunting is. Why it is a non-lethal form of hunting and how it is most definitely NOT to be confused with ‘trail’ hunting.
Winter may be coming but that won’t stop us speaking up for greyhounds!

Read our latest blog as Jac Freeman our Regional Campaigns Manager, describes the reality of the greyhound industry and scenes as the League and Stop Swindon Greyhound Racing joined forces in protest against greyhound racing.

Working for the League

As a team, we share the same passion – to stop animal cruelty in the name of sport. We are a tight knit team and we work hard within a fun, relaxed environment. We also offer something many employers don’t – an office full of friendly dogs!
Fox Hunting

Hunting was banned in England and Wales in 2004, but the law has never been properly enforced, and attempts to weaken or repeal it continue. The hunting law in Scotland is weak, and hunting is still legal in Northern Ireland.
Hunting on National Trust Land

Many people have been shocked to learn that illegal hunting is taking place on National Trust land.
Foxes

Foxes use 28 different vocal calls to communicate, and often form a pair that lasts for life. Foxes wag their tails to greet family members - just like dogs. More fox facts here!
Why The League

Hurting and killing animals for ‘sport’ is one of the principal causes of animal cruelty in the UK: tens of millions suffer and die each year for ‘leisure’ activities. We’re here to protect those animals.
Stand up for animals Join the League

Help stop animal cruelty in the name of sport.
JOIN
Bullfighting

Bullfighting is perhaps the most well known spectator “sport” involving the killing of animals for entertainment. It has already been banned in most countries, but each year tens of thousands of bulls are maimed, tortured and killed for entertainment in Spain, Portugal, France, Colombia, Mexico, USA, Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru.
Strengthen the Hunting Act

The Hunting Act 2004 is the law which bans chasing wild mammals with dogs in England and Wales – this basically means that fox hunting, deer hunting, hare hunting, hare coursing and mink hunting are all illegal, as they all are cruel sports based on dogs chasing wild mammals.
Greyhound Racing

The hidden side of greyhound racing includes dogs kept for long periods in lonely kennels, painful injuries from racing and training, illness and neglect. Shockingly, thousands of surplus dogs die or disappear every year. The League believes dogs should not suffer or die for entertainment or for the profit of the dog racing industry.
Dog Fighting

Dog fighting as a ‘sport’ was banned in 1835, as even then it was considered barbaric. But this horrific form of dog abuse continues.
It's time to take a stand against dog fighting.