Major League victory in Scotland
Our campaign leads to the Scottish Parliament closing the loopholes that allowed fox hunting to continue
Find out how you can help foxesEnd Driven Grouse Shooting in Scotland
Hundreds of thousands of grouse are shot for entertainment in Scotland most years.
Help end grouse shooting in ScotlandRead our end of season report 23/24
The annual report on activities of mounted hunts since the enactment of the Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Act October 2023
Read it here57,000 killing devices deployed each day
Scotland representing the equivalent of over 10,000,000 active trapping and snaring days per year.
Up to a quarter of a million animals are killed
each year to totally eradicate foxes, stoats, weasels and crows to increase the number of grouse.
Nearly half of the animals killed are non-target species
such as hedgehogs, dippers and mistle thrush.
An estimated 120,000 - 260,000
animals each year are snared and trapped on Scottish grouse moors, nearly half would be non-target species.
The League Scotland has published the most comprehensive and robust field study of ground predator control on Scotland’s shooting estates. Over 15 months, an independent surveyor mapped the location and frequency of traps and snares set on seven shooting estates to calculate the true extent of animal killing as a result of predator control to sustain the driven grouse shooting industry.