World Animal Protection UK

12/07/2025

Ready to take on an iconic challenge and help protect animals?

Run the TCS London Marathon for us in 2026!

📅 Sunday, 26 April 2026
🏁 26.2 miles
📍 London
🎯 £2500 fundraising target

You'll receive a branded running top and we'll support you with your fundraising every step of the way.

Spots are limited - apply now to join our team or get in touch with us if you already have a ballot place and want to fundraise for animals:

Join over 50,000 people on the streets of London and help make a difference for animals everywhere.

11/07/2025

Meet Haidy, who rescues hens from commercial farms and gives them a second chance at life 🧡

10/07/2025

Our Fundraising Manager, Gen, visited ethical elephant sanctuary Following Giants on a recent family holiday. Here she documents the visit and shows what a true sanctuary looks like.

If you want to visit a genuinely elephant-friendly attraction on holiday, always do your research before you visit and choose places that put animal welfare first - no rides, no washing, no tricks - just elephants treated with the respect they deserve 🧡🐘

09/07/2025

As temperatures rise across the UK again this week, spare a thought for the animals trapped in factory farms.

Chickens, pigs and other farmed animals are crammed into overcrowded, poorly ventilated sheds, with no way to escape the rising heat. Many suffer from heat stress, exhaustion, and some even die as conditions become unbearable.

It’s time to move away from cruel factory farms to higher-welfare, nature-friendly farms where animals have the space to exhibit natural behaviours and areas where they can cool down.

08/07/2025

Plans announced by the government could see some farms in England taken out of food production, in a shift that raises big questions about the future of our food system.

07/07/2025

🚨 Wild animals that are kept as "pets" in people's homes around the UK, are being abandoned at alarming rates 😔👇

06/07/2025

If we don’t speak up for animals, who will?

05/07/2025

Be a voice for animals 🧡🐘

04/07/2025

Have you seen Ocean with David Attenborough yet? 🎥
The film captures the harsh realities of industrial overfishing, but has a clear message of hope - if we protect more of the ocean, it will thrive, replenish and benefit us all.

02/07/2025

What has cheap meat got to do with deforestation in the Amazon? 🤔

We expose the hidden link between the global meat industry and the destruction of Brazil's precious ecosystems 👇
https://bit.ly/40urwuy

01/07/2025

Amazing news! Mexico has banned the use of dolphins in entertainment shows 👏

This new legislation, which also bans commercial breeding, is a major step forward and reflects the growing demand to end the exploitation of marine mammals for profit.

We’re thrilled with this news, and although some legal loopholes remain, this is an important and promising milestone.

More and more people are speaking out against dolphin cruelty, yet TUI continues to sell tickets to these kinds of attractions.

How many bans will it take before TUI acknowledges the suffering they profit from and puts an end to it once and for all?

30/06/2025

Thankfully, the five pythons found in North Lincolnshire woodland, likely abandoned by an owner who no longer wanted them, are now recovering.

But their story highlights a deeper issue: these animals are fundamentally unsuitable to be kept as pets in the first place.

Reptiles, even when bred in captivity, remain wild animals with complex welfare needs that cannot truly be met in a home environment. No matter how well-intentioned the care, captivity can never replicate their natural habitat.

As a society, we desperately need to re-evaluate the mainstream acceptability of keeping wild species as pets.