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…
Category: LEAD AMMUNITION
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.
Six reasons to ban lead ammunition (5)
No maximum lead levels are set for game meat sold for human consumption in the UK so there is no protection for the consumer through food regulations. The easiest solution is to ban the use of lead ammunition. Tests have shown that lead levels in game meat (eg partridges, grouse, pheasant) on sale in UK…
Six reasons to ban lead ammunition (4)
It has been illegal to use lead ammunition to shoot wildfowl (in England) since 1999 but shooters are regularly breaking the law. In 2010 (10 years after a ban on lead ammunition for shooting wildfowl) a test of compliance showed that 70% of ducks available for sale for human consumption contained lead ammunition. This should…
Six reasons to ban lead ammunition (3)
From the findings of the Lead Ammunition Group: 10,000 children are growing up in households where they could regularly be eating sufficient game shot with lead ammunition to cause them neurodevelopmental harm and other health impairments. Gamekeepers’ families will presumably be at highest risk – and yet the shooting organisations have opposed any restraints…