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.
Whilst we dream of a world where crustaceans aren't viewed as food, this petition will help to achieve future goals including the prohibition of all inhumane killing practices, improving welfare and, importantly, adding crustaceans to the Animal Welfare Act 2006.
Urge the authorities to add decapod crustaceans to the Animal Welfare Act.
give protection to crabs and lobsters
New legislation has recently been passed whereby crustaceans are legally recognised as being sentient for the first time, and are now included in the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022. The Labour Government has now committed to finally end the deplorable practice and improve better standards of crustacean welfare.
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, however, we are still waiting for a ban.
Sign the petition to ask the government to introduce this legislation which they have previously committed to.
Ban snares in England
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.
None of this is humane; it causes unnecessary suffering and distress to sentient animals. There are different approaches that can be taken which can allow deer and humans to coexist peacefully, such as contraceptive vaccines and habitat modification.
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.
Sadly, the last year has been terrible for deers, as the UK government announced a 10 year cull strategy. This includes a potential ease in restrictions to night shooting and close season licensing, as well as a push to make eating deer “woke”.
Earlier this year, National Highways opened Cockrow Bridge, a heathland bridge over A3 near Cobham, helping to provide a safer route for commuting wildlife whose habitats exist close by.
Installing road signs to make motorists more aware of wildlife crossing is an additional, simple solution to helping prevent unnecessary harm to animals.
Ask Kent County Council to put signs up along these roads.
Install 'Wildlife Crossing' signs where geese CROSS
busy roads
With so many vehicles on the UK’s roads every single day, wildlife continues to be wiped out by traffic.
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, by being shot, pois 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.
In a parliamentary meeting in January of this year, The Natural Environment (Scotland) Bill stated that swift bricks will be delivered on new buildings (in Scotland). Whilst final discussions are still being made, we look forward to seeing this become a reality.
Analysed nests contained harmful chemicals connected to increased unhatched eggs and dead chicks, demonstrating a direct negative impact on bird populations.
Whilst veterinary medicine provides crucial protection for animals, it is of equal importance that they are safe in our environment.
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.We are currently awaiting the government's response, which is hoped to be announced next year.
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.
press LEGAL REFORMS TO STOP THE UNLAWFUL KILLING OF RAPTORS
It's been over 70 years since raptor persecution was given full legal protection, yet this wildlife crime still remains ongoing. It's time to urge the government to strengthen their protection to ensure that the criminal killing of birds of prey is finally addressed as a serious offense.
CRIMINALISE catapult attacks against animals
Animals who are small in size, including squirrels, seagulls, pigeons, ducks and swans, often suffer at the hands of humans in many ways. In a barbaric act, UK wildlife is attacked with catapults, causing serious injuries and even death.
They 'share similarities' with Cheviot Goats that have been added to the Rare Breeds Survival Trust watchlist and are on Defra’s Native breeds at risk list.
Support the locals in their fight to save the Langholm Goats and sign this petition. Grant this British Primitive Goat protected status and save them from being culled by Oxygen Conservation Ltd.
Grant protected status to the British Primitive goats in Scotland (closed)
The ancient Langholm Goats in the Scottish Borders are a nationally significant herd of naturalised wild goats with origins in the Iron Age. They face extinction due to habitat loss and culling.
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
(CLOSED)
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.
Stop
the Badger Cull
(CLOSED)
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.