Animal Aid

National Anti-Shooting Week takes place towards the end of September, just before the start of the pheasant shooting season on 1 October.

Annually, more than 45 million pheasants and partridges are purpose-bred to be used as feathered targets. As part of the production process, hundreds of thousands of breeding birds are confined inside metal battery cages for their entire productive lives. Most of the released birds die before they can be shot – from disease, starvation, exposure, predation or under the wheels of cars. Of the shot birds, many will be discarded rather than eaten.

It is our aim to spread the word about the misery and cruelty involved in this industry and achieve a ban on the production of birds for ‘sport’ shooting in Britain.

Key resources

• Pheasant shooting campaign index
• Order leaflets, posters and petitions to run a street stall or leafleting event
• Watch our undercover film and put a link to it on your Myspace and Facebook accounts
• Send this letter to your local newspaper
• Download our petition and collect signatures
• Ask your MP to support a ban on cages for breeding birds