What UK animals faced in 2024
We're building a better world for all animals. But they faced multiple
challenges in 2024.
*vertebrate species
TRUSTEES' REPORT AND ACCOUNTS 2024
2 MORE THAN
ONE BILLION
FARMED
ANIMALS…
AN ESTIMATED
750 WILD
ANIMAL
SPECIES*…
AROUND
THREE MILLION
LABORATORY
ANIMALS…
• 61,000 complaints being made to the RSPCA about abused or
neglected pets
• Dogs continuing to suffer from harmful breeding practices,
with 300,000+ Google searches for bulldog puppies
• Nearly half of owners worried about paying for pet care
• Animals experiencing suffering, which may be severe, as a result
of experiments
• Animal experiments mostly being done to develop new medicines
for humans and other animals, to understand how the body
works or to safety-test new chemicals, such as pesticides
• No species-specific legislation to protect most farmed animals
• At least 10 million farmed animals suffering in cruel cages
• Over a billion meat chickens of breeds
with inherent welfare issues being reared
in lower-welfare conditions
MORE THAN
36 MILLION
PET
ANIMALS…
• Wildlife populations continuing to decline
• Countless live animals being used in TV's I'm a celebrity…
get me out of here
• 13,000+ injured or orphaned wild animals coming into
our centres