As well as the Today programme, there was coverage of the Oxford Lead Symposium publication on BBC TV at breakfast time. This online piece with interviews with WWT staff, Danish hunters (‘I’m a conservationist,’ said Niels Kanstrup, ‘I’m a hunter, too. I think it’s a fair and sustainable way to use natural resources, but we…
Category: LEAD AMMUNITION
Shoot a few, poison a few more
Back to another Tim Bonner quote from his blog in the Huffington Post. I said that I would remind you of what he wrote: ‘Bonner, presumably on the basis of shooting some ducks, regards the estimates of dying waterfowl from lead poisoning in the UK each year as ‘nothing more than speculation‘. Remember that quote…
Norwegian blues over lead
You may remember that I said I’d come back to Tim Bonner’s thoughts, in a Huffington Post blog, on Norwegian lead levels in meat. This is what I wrote: Much is made of the partial reversal of the ban of lead ammunition in Norway. Bonner says that lead is still banned for use in…
Oxford Lead Symposium published
Almost a year ago, a group of scientists met in Oxford to review the evidence for lead impacts on people and wildlife. The shooting organisations were invited and almost to a man, showed their lack of interest in the science of this subject, and boycotted the event. Is it possible they spent the day looking…
Not mere
I was at Martin Mere over the weekend – and very nice it was too. I saw flocks, gaggles, herds, wisps, springs, flings, paddles, plumps, omnisciences (yes, really!), deserts, a small exaltation, doadings, skeins and flights – but what is the collective noun for lots of your birding friends? Because it was a great place…
Congratulations – that is the way to do it.
Congratulations to Andy Richardson and the shooting community for quickly reaching the 10,000 signatures milestone in their badly-worded and badly-argued e-petition to keep toxic lead ammunition. That is the way to do it – it’s effective campaigning, even though for an awful cause. My sincere congratulations to them (clearly BASC was involved and who knows…
I missed this – better late than never
It was just over a year ago, 9 November 2014, that the 11th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Migratory Species (in Resolution 11.15) called on Parties to “Phase-out the use of lead ammunition across all habitats (wetland and terrestrial) with non-toxic alternatives within the next three years with Parties reporting to CMS…
Lead ammunition – you choose
There are now two e-petitions on the subject of lead ammunition: one to ban it and one to keep it. Having failed to get Chris Packham sacked from the BBC, Andy Richardson now has put his name to an e-petition to keep lead ammunition. There can’t be many people who would want their name associated…
NEWS: Labour shadow minister comes out in favour of a lead ban
In a significant move on the political scene the Labour shadow minister for the natural environment, Alex Cunningham, has come out in favour of a ban of lead ammunition in this blog in the Huffington Post. ‘the time has come to embrace the growing body of evidence and for all lead shot and bullets to…
Six reasons to ban lead ammunition (6)
Here is a video of a duck showing the typical signs of lead poisoning – this is avoidable, so let’s avoid it. Sign Rob Sheldon’s e-petition to ban lead ammunition.