THERE'S NEVER BEEN A MORE IMPORTANT TIME TO USE YOUR VOICE FOR WILDLIFE.
PETITIONS
Part of the work we do at Verify Humanity is educating and empowering people to fight for wildlife. By design or by chance, most individuals don't realise the influence they can have on policies, laws and practices. If you have any suggestions for petitions you'd like to see here, please email us.
give protection to crabs and lobsters
This petition calls on the government to protect animals like crabs, lobsters, prawns and crayfish (decapod crustaceans) by including them in the Animal Welfare Act 2006 (England and Wales).
Ban snares in England
Scotland and Wales have already banned snares but England is yet to follow suit. The Labour Party made a commitment in their 2024 manifesto to improve animal welfare by banning snare traps. Sign the petition to ask the government to introduce this legislation which they have previously committed to.
Free-running snare traps currently remain legal in England despite causing animals to needlessly suffer. Snares can cause painful or even life-threatening injuries and can be indiscriminate in the wildlife they hurt, capturing pets, non-protected animals and protected animals alike.
Analysed nests contained harmful chemicals connected to increased unhatched eggs and dead chicks, demonstrating a direct negative impact on bird populations.
This petition calls on the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) to conduct comprehensive environmental risk assessments of veterinary drugs and implement stricter regulations.
This problem emphasizes the need to ensure that caring for our pets doesn't harm our native bird populations or other wildlife.
Urge DEFRA to Address Pesticide Contamination of Bird Nests
Researchers have discovered widespread pesticide contamination in UK songbird nests, tracing the source to common flea and tick treatments used on pets.
Hedgehogs depend on hedgerows and the edges of woodland for food and shelter. The loss or damage of landscape features such as hedgerows and an increase in road deaths is partly responsible for the decline in population in the UK.
Protecting them with legislation recognises the essential value of wildlife, intrinsically valuing all animals and their natural habitats. This petition calls on the UK Government to move hedgehogs to schedule 5 of the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981.
Include hedgehogs in wildlife protection legislation
Adding hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus) to schedule 5 of the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981 will mean they have more protection and might help reverse their decline.
They are one of the UK's most recognisable and loved wildlife animals but the number of these small mammals has dropped drastically and they are now listed as Near Threatened on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List.
Taking care of the deer means managing the herds to keep them at a sustainable size but the annual killing is an unnecessarily cruel method. Humane alternatives for population control, like contraception, already exist.
Let’s convince the Royal Parks to stop the cruel cull of these intelligent wild animals.
Stop the Cull:
Introduce Humane Methods to Control the Deer Population in the Royal Parks
The Royal Parks undertake a cull every year, around November and February, to control deer populations.
This control is still done by shooting.
InstalL 'Wildlife Crossing' signs where geese CROSS busy roads
Local people are calling for better road signs at a busy junction in Dartford, Kent where geese and other wild birds often cross the road to reach some lakes. Just recently an entire group of geese were killed by a car.
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Stop The War On Scotland’s Wildlife
Hundreds of thousands of animals are killed on the Scottish moors every year in the name of grouse moor management.
Foxes, stoats, weasels, hedgehogs, crows, magpies and birds of prey including eagles are being shot, poisoned or trapped by and for the shooting industry. Legal protections for these animals are insufficient and this petition is calling on the Scottish Government to ban this needless death and suffering of wildlife.
Make
'Swift Bricks' mandatory
Swifts have always nested in holes in buildings but much of todays house building and renovation is making them homeless by covering up the gaps or cavities they use.
Swift populations are already in decline and are listed as a Conservation Concern.
'Swift Bricks', commercially produced hollow bricks or blocks with a small entrance to allow swifts to build a nest inside, can easily be incorporated into new building developments.
Call on Sheffield Council and the Welsh government to legislate for Swifts.
Stop
the Badger Cull
Before getting into government the Labour Party promised to end the cull, agreeing that the systematic killing of badgers as ‘bovine tuberculosis (bTB) management’ is ineffective.
BAN OCTOPUS BREEDING FOR FARMS
If you've seen Netflix's documentary "My Octopus Teacher," you will be horrified to hear that the Spanish company Nueva Pescanova is planning to open the first commercial octopus factory farm."
A European Law banning octopus breeding for farms will also help prevent imports into the UK. With the UK Government's recent amendment to include octopus in The Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill it would be a travesty to see them then joining the other factory farmed animals on our supermarket shelves.
With octopus eating 3x their weight in seafood, it is also an inefficient form of protein that further threatens an already stressed marine ecosystem.
END HARE COURSING IN Ireland
Hare coursing is a blood sport where dogs are made to chase and kill hares for human entertainment. Over 4,500 wild hares are captured every year by the Coursing Clubs during the netting process. This is when traumatised hares are herded into nets by gangs of yelling people and later put into boxes and transported to the clubs where they are held captive for as long as 141 days.
