2020 – Scottish Government announce an effective ban on seal shooting

OneKind campaigned for an end to seal shooting for many years.

Seal campaign poster from 2009

In 2009, a Report was released to highlight the animal welfare concerns of seal shooting along with a campaign video.

Around that time OneKind also launched a campaign, 'Look Out For Seals' (right), to show the Scottish Government just how much seals are loved by visitors and by the people of Scotland.

We continued to draw attention to the issue of seal shooting up until it was ended in 2020.

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2023 - Scottish Government ends the 'sport' of fox hunting

Under the Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Act 2023, there is now a two-dog limit for flushing wild mammals to guns, effectively putting an end to fox hunting packs.
2021 – mandatory CCTV comes into force for all Scottish slaughterhouses

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2021 – UK Government introduce Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill to Parliament

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2020 – Scottish Government commit to exploring restorative justice for offenders against animals

The Scottish Government announced it would commission a research project into the value of restorative justice and empathy-based interventions for offenders against animals – something OneKind had been advocating for since 2014.
2020 – Mountain hares in Scotland given greater protection

The Scottish Parliament voted to recognise mountain hares as a protected species. This would put an end to Scotland’s mass scale killing of the hares.
2017 – OneKind celebrates Scotland’s ban on wild animals in circuses

After years of campaigning by OneKind, Scotland became the first country in the UK to ban the use of wild animals in circuses.
2014 – OneKind joins Wild Animal Welfare Committee

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2011 – Regulations governing the setting of snares in Scotland introduced

Working with partners, OneKind was instrumental in achieving the strictest regulatory regime in the UK for the use of snares, by influencing the Scottish Parliament during its consideration of the Wildlife and Natural Environment (Scotland) Act 2011.
2011 – OneKind investigation features on BBC documentary

The BBC2 Scotland documentary, ‘Fair Game? Scotland’s Sporting Estates’ showed a BBC reporter visiting the Leadhills Estate in South Lanarkshire, with an undercover investigator from OneKind.
2011-Bill Oddie fronts OneKind anti-snaring film

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