Success Stories

Another win. Huws Gray Lowestoft has agreed to remove harmful bird netting, made possible entirely by supporters like you. Your evidence submissions are changing lives. Bird netting is cruel, indiscriminate, and unnecessary. It’s time we chose to live alongside wildlife, not against it. Their suffering cannot be ignored!

The Bush Hotel, Farnham, has removed its bird netting! This is thanks to a submission being made to this site and our new rapid response petition tool, which rallied supporters with one clear call to action: Remove your bird netting and contact Humane Wildlife Solutions for cruelty-free alternatives.

This could not have been done without the member of the public who reported the bird netting, nor could it have been done with out the efforts of our amazing supporters who jumped to action to help protect wildlife.

We praise the Bush Hotel for their effort to protect wildlife!

Thanks to more than 6,500 people signing the petition, Norwich City Council rejected Barclays’ application to install bird netting on its building at 5–7 Red Lion Street, Norwich. This is a powerful example of what happens when people stand up for wildlife. By raising the alarm and putting pressure on decision-makers, campaigners helped prevent another building from being sealed off with harmful netting that can trap and kill birds.

The application to install netting (Application 25/01049/F, submitted 25 September 2025) was formally refused by Norwich City Council on 28 November 2025. The council concluded that the proposal failed to demonstrate that bird netting would avoid harm to wildlife or protected species, meaning it posed an unacceptable risk to local animals. The council also determined that the netting would cause visual harm to the building, which is a locally identified heritage asset within the City Centre Conservation Area. Because the proposal offered no public benefit that could outweigh these impacts, the application was refused.

After birds were found trapped and dying in bird netting at the Mercure Nottingham City Centre Hotel, public outrage and reports to local authorities forced action. Kevin Newell from Humane Wildlife Solutions alerted both Protect the Wild and the relevant authorities, and by working together we were able to push for the netting to be addressed and the trapped birds rescued. Guests had reported multiple pigeons dead and decomposing in the netting outside hotel windows, with others still trapped alive. Reports of birds caught in the netting had surfaced over several years, suggesting this had been an ongoing issue where animal suffering had been repeatedly ignored.

Following the exposure of the incident and intervention from animal welfare authorities, action was finally taken. Surviving birds were rescued and the netting was removed to prevent further animals becoming trapped. The case exposed the brutal reality of bird netting on buildings and why these installations pose such a serious danger to wildlife. It also showed the power of public pressure and collaboration: when cruelty is exposed and campaigners, experts and the public work together, companies can be forced to act.