Sign our anti-shooting petition!

The launch of our Killing Our Countryside campaign in May, by Animal Aid patron Chris Packham, resulted in press coverage in the Mirror and many people getting in touch for an action pack, as well as downloading our in-depth new report, which demonstrates the various harms done to the countryside by the massive release of millions of pheasants and partridges every year.

We are now entering the next phase of the campaign, which is aimed at getting as many petition signatures as possible on our anti-shooting petition.

There are signs that opposition to this cruel industry is mounting: the Welsh Government held a consultation in 2023 into the environmental impacts of the release of so many purpose-bred birds into the countryside. In its summary, Natural Resources Wales stated: “In our review, we found evidence that the release of gamebirds can risk environmental harm, particularly where they take place in sensitive locations or in a way that does not meet good practice.”

In our petition, we have highlighted some of the terrible things that this bloodsport does to animals:

• The breeding parent birds imprisoned for life in appalling metal cages
• Killing of native wildlife, to ‘protect’ the pheasants and partridges until they are shot
• Significant negative impacts on other wild animals caused by the birds’ mass release.
• Use of toxic lead shot
• And, of course, the shooting, wounding and killing of the actual pheasants and partridges themselves.

Help us show Westminster and devolved governments that we oppose this cruelty.

Please sign the petition and ask everyone you know to sign it, too.

The birds have nobody but us – so let’s make a huge noise!