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Cull saboteurs: 'We will put ourselves between the bullets and the badgers'
Friday 14 June 2013
Sarah Morrison delves inside the secret world of the people trying to stop the mass shootings
Cambridge rowers accused of causing death of ducklings in May Bumps race
Friday 14 June 2013
The annual rowing race has come in for criticism after a boat colliding with a brood of ducks
Vets say their professional body was wrong to support Government badger cull
Tuesday 04 June 2013
Veterinary Association accused of being too close to farmers in letter to The Independent
There is no alternative, chief scientist tells badger protesters, as cull begins
Friday 31 May 2013
Those who are opposed to the shooting ‘need to come up with some viable alternative'
Chief vet: We need badger cull to prevent spread of TB to humans
Thursday 30 May 2013
Infected wild animals pose ‘a risk to health’, says Nigel Gibbens, as population control trials begin
Environment Secretary Owen Paterson faces squatting threat over badger cull
Monday 27 May 2013
Radical animal rights activists plan to squat at Owen Paterson’s house in southern France
Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport allowed to resume goose cull in bid to prevent bird strikes
Sunday 26 May 2013
Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport is expected to start gassing thousands of geese this week to prevent potentially lethal bird strikes on aircraft, after an animal rights group failed to convince a court to halt the cull.
Auf wiedersehen, pet: Justin Bieber's capuchin monkey is abandoned at German airport
Sunday 19 May 2013
Animal impounded by German authorities in March has still not been reclaimed by the teen superstar
Editorial: Who needs mega-farms?
Sunday 12 May 2013
We eat too much of the wrong sort of food. More cheap meat is no solution
Animal cruelty convictions up 33% in England and Wales
Tuesday 30 April 2013
RSPCA's annual prosecutions report shows rise from 3,114 in 2011 to 4,168 last year
That's one way to badger farmers: squatters join battle to halt cull
Friday 26 April 2013
Activists plan to shadow shooting parties with vuvuzelas to scare badgers away
Editorial: Electioneering is not free speech
Monday 22 April 2013
Even the most ardent critics of the European Court of Human Rights must acknowledge that its most recent verdict deserves a round of applause.
Animal rights group defeated in move that would have opened up paid UK political advertising
Monday 22 April 2013
An animal rights group has narrowly lost an attempt to open up paid political advertising in the UK.
The wrong kind of photo shoot: Nikon in the line of fire over rifle sights for big game hunting
Monday 01 April 2013
Camera company synonymous with wildlife photography accused of hypocrisy for making rifle sights
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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