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.
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.
Stop
the Largest-Ever Massacre
of Wild Horses
Wyoming's Bureau of Land Management plans to ‘eradicate’ thousands of wild horses.
The horses will be rounded up and driven out of their home habitat, to be replaced by commercial development.
They are viewed as a problem by livestock business who want to use the land for farm animal grazing.
Stop the Massacre of Sweden's Brown Bears
The Swedish government has authorised the culling of hundreds of wild brown bears, potentially endangering the survival of the entire Scandinavian brown bear population.
Despite being listed as a Strictly Protected Species under EU law, nearly 200 brown bears have already been killed by hunters, some using dogs.
This cull represents around 20% of the country’s total bear population—a dangerously high percentage that could drive numbers close to unsustainable levels.
More compassionate conservation methods exist that focus on promoting coexistence between humans and wild animals.
Tell the Swedish government that this annual slaughter of bears is inhumane and unnecessary.
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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.
END UNNECESSARY WOLF AND BEAR SLAUGHTER IN ALASKA
The Alaska Board of Game has an outdated ‘predator control program’ that is killing wolves and bears.
Members of the Board are hunters and big game guides who have decided to extend the program, without independent scientific review or public consultation.
Urge Indian Railways to enforce measures to protect elephants from speeding trains
Sign this petition demanding Indian Railways uses safety measures and speed limits on trains passing through the ‘elephant corridors’ of India.
These corridors are routes elephants take to move between their natural habitats. The corridors are legally protected designated wildlife sanctuaries or conservation reserves but many of them have rail-lines passing through and elephants are being killed or severely injured when crossing.
FREE LULU
Lulu and Gulliver are green turtles held in SeaLife Brighton in an unnatural habitat - 80 years for Lulu!
The call is for them to be relocated to a sanctuary, to an environment as near to their native habitat as possible, where they can live out their lives and experience the quality of life they truly deserve.
STOP THE LEGALISED KILLING OF WILD BIRDS IN THE UK
Natural England and NatureScot, UK government conservation agencies, are granting licenses to control over 65 bird species, including endangered ones. This petition call for a comprehensive overhaul of these agencies and their licensing process, demanding transparency, accountability, and independent reviews of current licenses, along with strict compliance verification and a meeting with environment secretaries to address public concerns about the sanctioned killing of wild birds.
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.
STOP SPANISH MINK FUR FARMS
Mink fur is commonly used for fake eyelashes and sometimes these products claim to be cruelty-free, even though they are not. Fur is used in many things from jackets to clothing accessories. The EU is responsible for 63% of mink production and 70% of fox fur production worldwide. 17 countries have committed to banning or phasing out fur farming in the last two decades including the UK. This petition calls on the Spanish Government tostop mink fur farming.
