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Help homeless pets this Christmas
03 November 2011
With your help, OneKind's Christmas Appeal will bring some festive cheer to homeless pets. This winter is as likely as the last one to be very cold...
8Hours: Deadline extended as campaign gets close to target of 1 million signatures
02 November 2011
The exciting news is that 8Hours the EU-wide campaign, which aims to bring to an end the long-distance transportation of farmed animals for slaughter,...
Time to question pet origins
27 October 2011
As a new European report published today draws attention to the health risks in acquiring new companion animals, OneKind calls for people to be more...
Grey seal slaughter figures soar in Scotland
18 October 2011
Figures published this month by the Scottish Government show that more seals were killed under licence in the second quarter of 2011 than in the...
Revised Common Agriculture Policy proposals fail to consider animal welfare
12 October 2011
Proposals published today (Wednesday 12 October) by the European Commission have missed the opportunity to address the animal welfare problems caused...
Otter death highlights need to end snaring
30 September 2011
New SnareWatch initiative will show the truth Tragic news from Hessilhead Wildlife Rescue in Ayrshire this week. Wildlife specialist staff were...
EU battery cage ban – worrying figures revealed
21 September 2011
OneKind is calling for urgent action from the European Commission to prevent several major EU nations flouting the barren battery cage ban when it...
OneKind calls once more for review of guga hunt licence
25 August 2011
Each August two thousand gannet chicks, known as gugas, are killed on Sula Sgeir by hunters from Ness, on the Isle of Lewis. The birds are taken from...
OneKind circus petition focuses on moral question
17 August 2011
Thank you to everyone who signed the OneKind petition seeking a ban on the use of wild animals in circuses in Scotland. Our petition has now been...
OneKind gets set for badgers as cull protest grows
03 August 2011
I've just signed the 38 degrees petition to stop the plan to cull thousands of badgers next spring. You can take action here. According to one...