Today is the start of the pheasant killing season

These poor birds will be ‘beaten’ up into the air where shooters will blast them from the skies.

Wounded, terrified birds will plummet to the ground in agony if they have not been killed outright. Lead shot will rain down onto the earth. Anyone living within the vicinity of shoots will have to put up with an incredible amount of noise, and having their animals scared, sometimes to death, by the noise of the guns.

Just so a privileged elite can prove their ‘worth’ to each other.

Help us raise awareness that this isn’t a traditional, rural pastime involving people bagging a wild bird or two for the pot. Rather, it is a lucrative, cynical industry that exploits and kills millions of birds and wild animals and is destructive to the environment.

Anything that you do will help – you can hold an information stall in your city centre, write a letter to your local newspaper or sign our petition, and share on social media asking all your friends to sign it as well.

1. Order leaflets
2. Sign the petition
3. Letter writers, read on!

Suggestions for points to include in your letter to your local newspaper:

• Every year, 60 million non-native pheasants and partridges are purpose-bred to be used as live feathered targets by shooters
• The breeding parent birds are imprisoned in appalling metal box-like cages
• Native wildlife, including foxes and other birds, and any animals who are deemed to be a ‘threat’ to the birds are killed to ‘protect’ the pheasants and partridges until they are shot
• The release of millions of pheasants and partridges has a significant negative impact on other wild animals and the environment
• Shooters kill birds using toxic lead shot, which harms the environment, other animals and people
• And, of course, the shooting, wounding and killing of the pheasants and partridges themselves is cruel and completely unnecessary

The birds have nobody but us – please help.