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Our Impact

Humane World for Animals UK tackles the root causes of animal cruelty and suffering to create permanent change. We make that change at scale, advocating for policy change at all levels of government and working with companies so that they can be kinder to animals their businesses impact. 

 
3
countries

in the UK prohibit the use of glue traps by the public

1.2
millions

signatures on our Fur-Free Britain petition

300
UK chefs

have been trained on plant-based cooking through our programs

What we are working on

Across the UK, we collaborate with like-minded advocates to push for a better world. It’s something Brits want, with 71% of the British public surveyed agreeing that policies that improve animal welfare reflect their own values. We’re focused on a few key areas, including eliminating the worst abuses of farmed animals. Less than 20% of Brits support caging pigs, and we’re working to end that cruelty. We’re also fighting to remove fur from fashion, prohibit the import of hunting trophies into Great Britain, encourage plant-based eating and more.

Brown hare

Andy Fisher

Act for wildlife

Every year, millions of wild animals are persecuted, displaced and cruelly killed across Britain. The scale of their suffering is substantial because our laws fail to give wild animals the protection they need and deserve. We're calling urgently for wildlife laws to be strengthened, to better protect wildlife and ensure wild animal welfare is at the centre of wildlife legislation.

Pigs

Humane World for Animals

Pigs deserve better.

Improving life for farmed animals

Industrial animal agriculture is one of the largest sources of animal suffering in the world. Among the many animal welfare problems, billions of animals are confined to cages or crates so small they can barely move. We must rethink our food systems. That's why we're using science and advocacy to persuade corporations, financial institutions, food and food service companies, governments and producers to improve the lives of farmed animals raised for food and shift toward a more plant-forward, climate-friendly global food system. 

Calling for a fur-free Britain

Theodora Iona

Working for a Fur-Free Britain

Every year, tens of millions of animals suffer and die for their fur, all for a frivolous product that no one needs. The UK banned fur farming as ‘unethical’ in 2000, recognising that keeping wild animals in tiny cages can never be humane. However, the UK continues to allow fur to be imported and sold, effectively outsourcing fur cruelty overseas. More than three-quarters of the British public reject this double-standard and support a fur import and sales ban. We're campaigning hard to make this happen.

Trophy hunted parts of animals

Humane World for Animals

Killed for their parts.

Stopping trophy hunting

Trophy hunting is the unethical practice of killing wildlife for entertainment to obtain the animal’s body or its parts for display as a trophy. Trophy hunters often pay large sums of money to kill rare or charismatic animals and enter their achievements into record books for awards kept by hunting organizations. Humane World for Animals UK is lobbying policymakers to pass comprehensive legislation to ban the import of hunting trophies to the United Kingdom from CITES Appendix I and II species.

Making plant-based food

Lance Murphey

Tasty and healthy!

Forward Food

EatKind is a campaign to encourage people to begin their journey to protecting the planet, animals and their health by cutting down, or cutting out, animal products and embracing plant-based foods. Reducing the amount of meat and other animal products on menus is critical if we are to make the global food system more sustainable, putting more plants on plates can also improve human health and prevent animals from suffering.

Photo os a white footed mouse

Ryan B. Stephens

Banning glue traps

Glue traps, also known as glue or sticky boards, are trays coated with an extremely strong adhesive. We want to see a complete ban on the sale and use of these cruel, indiscriminate and indefensible traps, due to the suffering they cause to animals.

Petitions

Help animals by taking action

Petitions
Help dogs from around the world get a second chance at life in Canada

Urge the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to adopt exemptions to measures prohibiting the entry of dogs from over 100 countries for animal rescue missions and humanitarian efforts.

Grizzly bears need your help!

Grizzly bear protections in the U.S. are under attack and we need your help to fight back.


 

Horseshoe crabs belong in oceans, not labs!

For almost 450 million years, horseshoe crabs have played a vital role in maintaining coastal ecosystems. Today, they face a grave threat.

Help protect pangolins

Small and gentle pangolins are the most trafficked mammal in the world. Despite this, the majority of pangolin species are not protected. 

End the suffering of captive wildlife at roadside zoos in Quebec

It is time for the Quebec government to finally put an end to roadside zoos.

Put an end to cockfighting

Each year, thousands of roosters suffer in fighting pits in the United States. Razor-sharp gaffs tied to their legs, roosters suffer punctured lungs, broken bones and pierced eyes while fighting to the death. Will speak out against this cruelty and help ensure there is no haven for cockfighting?  

Replace animal experiments with sophisticated alternatives

Every day, in labs around the world, dogs, monkeys, mice and other animals endure a life of misery. Demand that governments, companies, and universities stop relying on outdated animal experiments use non-animal science!

Replace animal experiments with sophisticated alternatives

Every day, in labs around the world, dogs, monkeys, mice and other animals endure a life of misery. Demand that governments, companies, and universities stop relying on outdated animal experiments use non-animal science!

Replace animal experiments with sophisticated alternatives

Every day, in labs around the world, dogs, monkeys, mice and other animals endure a life of misery. Demand that governments, companies, and universities stop relying on outdated animal experiments use non-animal science!

Latest News

Fox fur farm investigation in Finland, carried out by Humane World for Animals in collaboration with Finnish animal protection group Oikeutta eläimille in late October 2024.

Kristo Muurimaa

Pressure increases for UK Government to ban cruel fur imports as leading EU science body declares systemic animal suffering on Europe’s fur farms

LONDON—Pressure is increasing on the UK Government to ban the import and sale of cruel fur as a leading EU science body, the European Food Safety Authority, concluded in its official scientific

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New polling reveals 69% of Brits reject the practice of caging mother pigs in farrowing crates for weeks at a time

LONDON—New polling commissioned by leading animal protection organisation Humane World for Animals UK (formerly Humane Society International UK) reveals that more than two thirds (69%) of the British

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Animal groups deliver 1.5 million petition signatures to 10 Downing Street for a UK fur sales ban ahead of legislative bill’s Second Reading

LONDON―Campaigners gathered today at No. 10 Downing Street to deliver a petition of more than 1.5 million signatures to the Prime Minister, calling for the UK to ban the import and sale of cruel fur

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