Advocates for Animals
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| Founded | 1911 |
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| Founder | Nina Douglas-Hamilton, Duchess of Hamilton |
| Type | Registered charity no. SC041299 |
| Focus | Animal welfare |
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Employees
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Volunteers
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45 |
| Slogan | Ending cruelty to Scotland's animals |
| Website | www.onekind.scot |
OneKind is a campaigning animal welfare charity based in Edinburgh and operating in Scotland, UK and as part of the Eurogroup for Animals. OneKind exists to end cruelty to Scotland's wildlife, pets, and other animals through high-profile public campaigns, political lobbying, investigations, objective research and public education.
The organisation was founded as the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Vivisection, in 1911 by Nina Douglas-Hamilton, Duchess of Hamilton. Kay Douglas-Hamilton, Duchess of Hamilton, widow of the 15th Duke, remains active in the organisation. The group is currently run by Director Harry Huyton. It was renamed Advocates for Animals in 1990, as part of a rebranding campaign that included a new logo, but officially became known as OneKind in 2010.
OneKind works to expose the suffering of wild animals caused by weaknesses in or a lack of legislation, with an ongoing campaign to ban the use of snares as a fox-trapping technique in Scotland. In 2011, OneKind set up the Snare Watch website to allow members of the UK public to report snare locations and incidents such as the accidental trapping of domestic pets or non-target species such as badgers. OneKind also provide a secretariat service to the Wild Animal Welfare Committee, an independent group providing an evidence base for evaluating, monitoring, assessing and improving decisions affecting the welfare of free-living wild animals in the UK. OneKind advocates for better protection for seals, and for an end to culling of native species perceived as ‘pests’ including Scotland's mountain hares, and beavers.
In 2014 OneKind published the Pet Origins report, a comprehensive review of the UK’s pet vending industry illustrating the current problems and setting arguments for industry reform. OneKind would like to see the Pet Animals Act 1951 updated to ensure it provides adequate protection for all animals being bred and sold commercially, and the practice of keeping primates as household pets to be banned in the UK.
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