By Rob Espin What follows is a summary abstract of a longer article from our latest edition of the UK Journal of Animal Law, available to members of the UK Centre for Animal Law. If you would like to read the full article as well as articles about wildlife welfare and animal law in general, more...
By Hollie Bates, caseworker at Freedom Law Clinic At Ol Pejeta conservancy in Kenya’s Laikipia region, four hours north of Nairobi, the last two northern white rhinos live under 24-hour protection from armed guards. Every day, Zacharia Mutai wakes up at 6am and...
A legal win for Scottish beavers! The judgment was handed down today in the legal challenge brought by Trees for Life against the Scottish Government’s beaver killing policy. A judge decided that all licenses authorised by NatureScot to kill beavers had been unlawful. Meaning all past and future...
Watch this short video to find out more about our position on the UK Government’s proposal to ban the private keeping of primates. In February 2021, our Wildlife Law and Companion Animal Law Working Groups submitted a joint response to a Government consultation on the keeping of primates as...
On Earth Day, April 22 2021, A-LAW’s Student Ambassadors, Aditi Bardia, Aryan Mandal and Parnika Chaturvedi, hosted guest speakers Gauri Maulekhi, Trustee, People For Animals India, and Duncan McNair, CEO of Save The Asian Elephants (STAE), for an important and insightful discussion about...
In this episode, A-LAW legal experts discuss two legal cases that made the headlines in 2020. Friends of Antique Cultural Treasures Ltd v DEFRA [2020] EWCA Civ 649, concerning a challenge to the legality of the Ivory Act 2018, and R (National Farmers Union & Anor) v Secretary of State for...
By Denise Ho, law student In its 68th session, the United Nations General Assembly declared March 3rd to be World Wildlife Day. Since 2013, the date has marked an annual celebration of wildlife, bringing awareness and appreciation to the dense ecosystems we cohabit with on this planet....
By Chris Butler-Stroud and Sarah Dolman, Whale and Dolphin Conservation For International Marine Mammal Protection Day, we asked WCD what laws they would like to see changed to protect marine mammals. This is their response. The increasing pressures that marine mammals face worldwide,...
By Avanti Deshpande, student at ILS Law College, Pune, India In June 2020, a pregnant elephant died in Kerala, India after consuming a pineapple stuffed with firecrackers. This event caused massive outrage in the media and sparked a conversation about wildlife-human conflict. Upon...
By Sophie Mills, Trainee Solicitor The Scottish wildcat (Felis silvestris) is one of the few native predators left in Scotland. With only 35 recorded in northern Scotland in recent years, they are at risk of genetic extinction. Three main factors have contributed to this: (1) hunting for sport;...
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