Shooting estates blame predators (who eat to survive, not for a day out of so-called ‘sport, and are an essential part of every ecosystem) for killing birds they want to sell to shooters. Countless numbers of these wild mammals are killed in traps and snares, but no-one knows just how many because there is no legal requirement to keep a public record of trapping data.
Little accurate data exists on the status of local (let alone national) populations of predators like weasels, stoats or even foxes. Yet the very shooting estates that historically drove mammals like the Pine Marten, Polecat, and Red Squirrel close to extinction in large parts of their former strongholds are able to kill these animals without making any data publically accessible.
You can get involved and send a letter to the UK’s Home Secretary, asking to make it a legal requirement to document and make publically available every mammal killed by each and every shooting estate.
Click the link below to send the letter direct from our website to their inbox.
