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Electrical Trades Union boss Troy Gray says campaign to continue the activity will now expandFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastVictorian Labor MPs are set to b…
Wild Justice says government initiative to relocate broods away from grouse moors ‘rewards past crimes’ of illegal killingA £900,000 government scheme to “meddle” with nests of hen harriers is a waste of money and rewards those who kill them, a wildlif…
Trail hunts used as a loophole for unlawful chasing and killing of animals, Matt Longman tells campaignersEngland’s most senior police officer on foxhunting has said the law on the crime is “not working” because it permits trail hunts that have become …
Animal welfare groups and Conservative campaigners criticise decision to scrap kept animals billUK politics live – latest updatesRishi Sunak has been accused of breaking his word after dropping the government’s animal welfare legislation.The prime mini…
Ministers to close loophole in 2018 Ivory Act that means animals other than elephants can be targetedIvory imports from hippopotamuses, orcas and walruses will be banned under new legislation to protect the endangered species from poaching.The Ivory Ac…
Submissions to inquiry described hunting as generational tradition, while animal activists displayed dead ducks outside parliament buildingFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or …
House of Lords to rule on divisive legislation that would stop import of endangered animals’ body partsMPs have voted to support a controversial ban on importing hunting trophies from thousands of species into the UK, preventing British hunters from br…
Conservationists condemn latest cull as ‘trophy hunting’, while hunters admit it is ‘about the excitement’Sweden has issued licences to hunters to kill a total of 201 lynx, weeks after dozens of wolves were killed in the country’s biggest wolf cull in …
Despite calls for a ban, the season begins on 26 April and will run for about a month less than it did last yearFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe Victo…
Campaigners welcome vote by MSPs to close loopholes they say were smokescreen for illegal foxhunting Animal welfare campaigners have hailed the decision by the Holyrood parliament to toughen anti-hunting laws as a wake-up call to Westminster.Màiri McA…