CARCASSES DUMPED - IT'S CRIMINAL

DEAD PHEASANTS DUMPED

One of the last reports on the Raptor Persecution site is a photograph of another quantity of carcasses dumped in blue plastic clearly visible.

Photographs don't lie except if there is a suggestion that it is part of a ‘fake news scam’!  I believe it is not as there have been dumps of carcasses reported from Scottish Borders, Perthshire, Co. Derry, West Yorkshire, North York Moors National Park, North Wales. Mid Wales, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Berkshire.  That is only the ones that have been found and there must be more and some have been dumped on the sides of roads.  And in plastic too.  They don't care.  It appears to be a total disregard for people, places, the environment, wildlife and with no respect for the pheasants and partridges that are bred for one purpose only and that is for the ‘pleasure’ of some people to blast out of the sky in the name of ‘sport’.  It's not sporting at all.

I enclose a few lines from that report:

It seems to be a widespread problem, doesn’t it? That’s hardly a surprise when the game shooting industry is permitted to release as many non-native pheasants and red-legged partidge as it likes (estimated to be at least 50 million EVERY YEAR), with minimal regulation, and no requirement to report on what happens to those birds once they’ve been shot for a bit of a laugh.

And let’s not forget this is the same game shooting industry that is responsible for the vast majority of illegal raptor persecution, done, it says, to protect gamebirds. That’ll be the gamebirds that are shot and then dumped, with no respect for the quarry and no respect for the local residents who’ll have to foot the bill to have the caracasses removed.

And you can view images on the Raptor Persecution Sites.