Politicians

Along with other leading animal-protection groups, we’ve just written to the Prime Minister urging her to make good on David Cameron’s broken promise to ban wild-animal circuses.

Politician, activist, MP and vegetarian Tony Benn may be gone, but his legacy of compassion will long be remembered.

Tomorrow, 2 October, would have been Mahatma Gandhi’s 145th birthday. It’s also the United Nations’ International Day of Non-Violence.

Today at Prime Minister’s Questions, David Cameron was asked about his attempts to amend the Hunting Act 2004.

Today, we, like many other people across Britain, were saddened to hear about the death of the legendary Tony Benn, who was a great friend to animals.

9-metre statue of Nelson Mandela in Pretoria contains an unexpected guest – a little bronze rabbit, nestling inside the great leader’s ear!

The UN has declared 2 October as the International Day of Non-Violence, a day dedicated to “disseminate the message of non-violence, including through education and public awareness”.

A draft bill was tabled in Parliament to stop circuses using animals beginning in 2015 – a move that all British people can celebrate.

Despite having been instructed by Parliament in 2011 to get wild animals out of circuses, David Cameron has been heel-dragging and stalling on implementing a ban.

The government sent PETA its proposed new law on animal experiments – the one resulting from the long, long process of translating the 2010 EU directive passed into UK law.