Most people would take no pleasure in shooting a bird out of the sky - but a small minority do and they pay large sums of money for the privilege. This barbaric display of wealth and cruelty is threatening our countryside and countless animals.
Most of us have seen images of starving polar bears or whole swathes of forests lost to wildfire, and felt a deep sense of sadness at the crisis facing the planet and our animal cousins. Closer to home, each dead pheasant or squirrel on the roadside is a reminder of the intolerance of other animals that we share this planet with.
Such intolerance has led to the cruelty of culling and the use of snares or other traps.
Wild animals are also persecuted in the name of rural ‘sport’ including hunting and shooting. The shooting industry is where factory farming meets bloodsports, with millions of pheasants and partridges being bred each year on British ‘gamebird’ farms. The release of these poor birds puts a huge burden on our native wildlife and countryside as they compete with other wildlife for food – all for the entertainment of a wealthy minority.
We believe in Our Shared Planet and that to protect it, we must allow animals to live freely alongside us.
