Our press releases
Our press releases provide quick access to key information on the latest RSPCA campaigns and animal welfare news and issues.
You can find our press releases from the past six months here, with the latest listed first.
If you have any further questions please contact our press office.
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Look before you strim, says RSPCA
Wednesday 22 May 2013
The RSPCA is warning gardeners to tread carefully to avoid harming the wildlife which may be living in their gardens.
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Come and join Brian May help save the badgers
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
Rock star and RSPCA vice-president Dr Brian May is to speak at a public meeting in Dorchester this Friday to oppose plans to kill thousands of badgers in England.
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Badgers snared just outside their front door
Friday, 17 May 2013
The RSPCA is appealing for information after one badger was killed and another seriously injured by snares set up at the entrance to their sett.
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RSPCA backs Commons Committee report on dog control
Thursday, 16 May 2013
David Bowles, the RSPCA’s head of public affairs, said: “The RSPCA has tirelessly lobbied successive Governments to introduce a consolidated Act to legislate on dog control and dog breeding, and are delighted to see that MPs in the EFRA Select Committee share our view.
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Orphaned baby badgers rescued and weaned back to health
Thursday, 16 May 2013
An RSPCA centre is looking after four orphaned badger cubs too little to survive without help.
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RSPCA seeks permission to get in Dover to monitor live exports
Tuesday, 14 May 2013
The RSPCA is calling on the people of Dover to support them in a bid for RSPCA inspectors to be allowed into the port to monitor live exports.
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Friday, 10 May 2013
The RSPCA will today open a new in-store RSPCA adoption centre (Friday 10 May 2013) in the Pets at Home store in Friern Barnet.
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Tuesday, 07 May 2013
Two leading Wiltshire huntsmen have today (7 May) pleaded guilty to damaging a badger sett contrary to the Protection of Badgers Act 1992 at Chippenham Magistrates’ Court in a case brought by the RSPCA.
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Pioneering RSPCA youth scheme wins award
Friday, 03 May 2013
A pioneering RSPCA scheme which uses wildlife and the great outdoors to improve the lives of disadvantaged young parents has won an award.
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Live exports resume from Dover but no permission for RSPCA at port
Thursday, 02 May 2013
Live exports have resumed from the Port of Dover in Kent this morning but RSPCA inspectors have not been granted permission to enter the port.
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Shocking report shows RSPCA fighting major animal cruelty crisis
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
Convictions for animal neglect and cruelty rose by nearly 34 per cent in 2012, a new RSPCA report reveals.
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Wednesday, 24 April 2013
The rarest of the oiled birds rescued and cared for by the RSPCA was the first to be released back to the sea yesterday (Tuesday 23 April 2013).
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RSPCA marks World Day for Laboratory Animals
Wednesday, 24 April 2013
The RSPCA is marking World Day for Laboratory Animals (24 April) by challenging the Government and scientists to prove that they are genuinely committed to effective regulation of animal experiments and to reducing the use and suffering of animals.
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Tuesday, 23 April 2013
Pioneering local authorities and housing providers that offer outstanding animal welfare services are being invited to enter a prestigious RSPCA awards scheme.
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The mystery of Macavity
Tuesday, 23 April 2013
In a case that would be the bafflement of Scotland Yard, RSPCA staff were left scratching their heads after a tiny kitten was discovered stuck between the wall cavity of a first floor flat, with no indication of how he got there – or how he managed to survive so long.
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Brian May meets Somerset residents to fight the badger cull
Monday, 22 April 2013
Somerset residents were out in force at the weekend to join Team Badger campaigners including rock star Dr Brian May to protest impending plans to kill thousands of badgers in England.
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Freedom Food pork sales are up
Friday, 19 April 2013
Freedom Food today announced an increase in pork for the third year running
which means that availability of Freedom Food labelled pork is at its highest ever level.
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RSPB, RSPCA and the Wildlife Trusts stick together in call for a ban
Friday, 19 April 2013
Three leading wildlife organisations have joined together to call for the ban on the discharge of a substance which has killed hundreds of seabirds.
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RSPCA bravery award for terrier who saved owner from a fire in Bristol
Wednesday, 17 April 2013
The RSPCA is recognising the bravery and persistence of a terrier who saved the life of her elderly owner when she did not realise her bed was on fire.
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Wednesday, 17 April 2013
Rock star and RSPCA supporter Dr Brian May is to speak at a public meeting this Saturday (April 22) to oppose plans to kill thousands of badgers in England.
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Campaigners welcome draft legislation to ban wild animal circuses
Tuesday, 16 April 2013
The Born Free Foundation, British Veterinary Association, Captive Animals’ Protection Society and the RSPCA today welcomed the Government’s draft legislation to ban the use of wild animals in circuses in England, to be implemented in 2015.
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Tuesday, 16 April 2013
The RSPCA are calling for an investigation after a pollution spill harmed hundreds of seabirds for the second time in just two months.
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Tuesday, 16 April 2013
The RSPCA is appalled and horrified by the levels of animal suffering revealed in undercover footage of animal experiments at a leading UK university, and is supporting calls for an independent inquiry.
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Sunday, 14 April 2013
The RSPCA’s West Hatch wildlife centre in Taunton is working flat out to look after more than 60 of the oiled birds caught in the latest pollution incident in the English Channel.
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Friday, 12 April 2013
RSPCA inspectors have been responding to dozens of calls from the public about oiled birds on South West beaches following the latest pollution incident in the English Channel.
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More than 30 oiled guillemots picked up by RSPCA in South West
Thursday, 11 April 2013
The RSPCA has gathered a further 27 oiled birds from beaches in the South West this morning.
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Wednesday, 10 April 2013
The RSPCA is getting reports that more guillemots are being blown onto beaches in the South West covered in the same kind of sticky substance that affected them so badly two months ago.
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Pregnant cat found dumped in bin with intestines hanging out
Wednesday, 10 April 2013
The RSPCA is trying to trace the owners of a cat who was found by a member of the public dumped in a wheelie bin in Merthyr Tydfil with severe injuries.
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Saturday, 6 April 2013
The RSPCA is hopeful that the changes made to the Aintree course helped to avoid fatalities in the first Grand National in three years.
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Thursday, 4 April 2013
The quarantine of Justin Bieber’s capuchin monkey and associated animal welfare concerns highlights the problems of keeping these highly social, intelligent animals as pets, say the RSPCA.
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Wednesday, 3 April 2013
A rare breed black sheep was found tied-up outside a pub in Hampshire by a shoelace on Monday (April 1).
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Government must listen and drop cull plans, say RSPCA
Thursday, 28 March 2013
The RSPCA and its colleagues in Team Badger welcome the rumours that Gloucestershire are pulling out of the badger cull, and calls on the Westminster Government to hear this clear message and halt its misjudged plans.
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First anniversary of RSPCA witness to live exports from Ramsgate
Thursday, 28 March 2013
Today is the first anniversary of RSPCA inspectors attending the port of Ramsgate to witness the export of live animals.
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Tuesday, 26 March 2013
The RSPCA is urging action to prevent the killing of thousands of badgers in England.
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Thursday, 21 March 2013
The RSPCA has vowed to keep fighting to see an end to the live export of animals after a High Court judge backed an earlier decision not to allow a judicial review into the regulation of the trade, following a hearing in London today.
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