by Jenny Canham Routine male chick culling in the UK Male chick culling is a routine practice in the UK egg industry. Every year, around 45 million male chicks are killed within just hours of being born. Because they are not female, and therefore cannot lay eggs, they are deemed as useless or...
By Josephine Götze, LL.M. candidate Imagine a world in which humans respect and protect the fundamental rights of non-human animals, such as the right to life, the right not to be exploited, or the right to freedom of movement, not only because it is ethically right, but because the law requires...
By David Lewis-Hall, Barrister The New Zealand Parliament has recently granted (1) legal personhood to a third natural entity, following Te Urewera (a forest) in 2014 (2) and Te Awa Tupua (the Whanganui River) in 2017. (3) Whilst this, along with other recent developments, may be good evidence of...
By Aldair Marins Violent interventionism, the theft of natural ethos and, consequently, the silencing of vital expressions have imposed a cruel fate on Puppy, Kuky and Sandro. For around three decades, these elephants were held in captivity, deprived of the exercise of their natural ethos, in...
By Dr Dorien Braam During my doctoral research conducted in Jordan and Pakistan into the role of animals in forced migration and zoonoses – diseases transmissible between humans and animals – the devastation as a result of the loss of animals killed as a result of conflict, during...
By Lawrence Topley In July 2024, the UK became the first European country to approve lab grown meat. Now, on 7 February 2025, the cell cultivated product has hit the shelves at Pets At Home in the form of dog treats called ‘Chick Bites’ (BBC News, 2024). This news comes after London-based startup...
By: Erin Poppenga As recognised by many countries worldwide, ecosystems are deteriorating because of invasive and destructive human behaviour. Ecological conditions can decline when certain species have been extinct from an area for a long time. [1] The ecosystem is out of balance, and...
The UK Centre for Animal Law (A-LAW) and Birmingham City University’s Animals, Nature & Society Research Stream are excited to announce they will co-host the 5th Annual Animal Law Conference on 4-5 June 2025 at Birmingham City University, UK. The call for papers for the conference...
RAWO’s website boldly states, “Let’s take care of animals”, and that is precisely what the charity does. Based in the Musanze district of Rwanda, its objective is to advance animal welfare in the country by improving the wellbeing of animals and humans. A-Law recently had the privilege of chatting...
Scotland has become the second UK administration to implement a full ban on wire snares to capture wild animals, such as foxes and rabbits. Measures introduced in the Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Act 2024 and commenced on Monday 25 November now prohibit all...
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