OneKind is a small but highly effective charity. Through our campaigns, investigations, research and education work we've been making a difference to animals for over a hundred years. Here's ten of our most recent successes:
- Seals – OneKind was influential in bringing an end to the legal shooting of seals in Scotland.
- Mountain hares – Following 4 years of campaigning, OneKind secured an end to the mass scale mountain hare killings.
- Fox hunting – OneKind played a key role in securing the Protection of Wild Mammals Act in Scotland in 2002, making hunting hares and foxes with dogs illegal. However, fox hunting continues much like it did before the ban, and OneKind continues to campaign for a full and effective fox hunting ban.
- Restorative justice – Following 6 years of campaigning, the Scottish Government announced it would commission a research project into the value of empathy training for offenders against animals.
- Circus animals – Following over a decade of campaigning by OneKind, Scotland became the first country in the UK to introduce a ban on the use of wild animals in travelling circuses.
- Licensing of grouse moors – We were widely recognised for our work on ending the suffering of animals on grouse moors when the Scottish Government committed to introducing licensing of grouse moors. This was a milestone in our work towards ending the suffering of these animals.
- Dogs – All Scottish dogs have tails to wag as OneKind got a ban on the docking of dogs tails in Scotland. Sadly, this was recently diluted by the Scottish Government, who introduced an exemption for working dogs.
- Wild animals – OneKind helped found the Wild Animal Welfare Committee, an independent Committee dedicated to providing independent advice on wild animal welfare to the UK Governments.
- Farmed animals – Our campaign to bring in CCTV in Scottish abattoirs resulted in a commitment by the Scottish Government to introduce compulsory video recording in all relevant areas of slaughterhouses in Scotland.
- Snares – Working with partners, OneKind was instrumental in achieving the strictest regulatory regime in the UK for the use of snares. But we will not stop campaigning until these primitive traps are banned outright in Scotland.
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