16 December 2003 |
Press statement on Uist hedgehogs
Advocates for Animals, British Hedgehog Preservation Society, International Animal Rescue and Hessilhead Wildlife Rescue are outraged and disgusted that the Board of Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) has today accepted proposals to kill hedgehogs on the Uists and Benbecula in 2004. |
14 December 2003 |
Press statement on Uist hedgehogs
Advocates for Animals has written to the Board of Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) urging it to reject proposals to kill yet more healthy hedgehogs on the islands of Uists and Benbecula in 2004. |
23 April 2003 |
Burns play to support Uist hedgehog rescue
Uist Hedgehog Rescue (UHR) is delighted that the Baudrans Production Theatre Company is dedicating its opening night of BURNS! (Your Bard, By the Way)’ or ’Burns withoot Bunnets’ to raising funds for the rescue operation. |
16 April 2003 |
First Uist hedgehogs arrive on the mainland
Members of the press are invited to meet the first hedgehogs to be saved by Uist Hedgehog Rescue (UHR). The hedgehogs will be at Hessillhead Wildlife Rescue Centre in Ayrshire. |
7 April 2003 |
Deception by SNH exposed in the killing fields of the Uists and Benbecula
Tonight will see the culmination of several months of dispute between SNH (Scottish Natural Heritage) and UHR (Uist Hedgehog Rescue) as the needless slaughter of 5,000 hedgehogs gets underway on the islands of Uists and Benbecula. |
3 April 2003 |
IFAW supports rescue of uist hedgehogs
Uist Hedgehog Rescue (UHR) today welcomed support from the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) to save the hedgehogs on the islands of Uist and Benbecula. |
28 March 2003 |
Hedgehog rescuers refute propaganda cruelty claims
Uist Hedgehog Rescue has today branded as "outrageous" the spurious claims made by conservation quango, Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH), that animals’ lives will be placed in danger by the rescue bid currently underway on the islands of Uist and Benbecula. |
25 March 2003 |
Scottish parliament committee backs rescue of Uist hedgehogs
The Scottish Parliament’s Public Petitions Committee has today backed plans to rescue the hedgehogs on the Uists and relocate them to waiting homes on the mainland. |
