Farming Today had a chat about lead ammunition this morning (7 minutes into the programme). Readers of this blog won’t have learned anything much (the research mentioned was covered here on 26 February, and Tuesday’s government announcement was covered on Tuesday) but in less than a month’s time this blog won’t be bringing you the…
Category: LEAD AMMUNITION
I just don’t understand it
With the news, from untrustworthy DEFRA, that they are going to drag their feet for another two years and then, perhaps, do something about lead ammunition we cannot be sure that we are really that close to an end to the shooting of lead into our environment and into our food. But, it goes without…
Slow progress on lead ammunition ban
Nearly six years after DEFRA received the completed report of the Lead Ammunition Group recommending that lead ammunition be phased out, DEFRA has asked for a review of the impacts of lead ammunition so that perhaps it can be phased out in two years’ time. The information on impacts of lead ammunition on wildlife, the…
Lead shot lack of progress
On Wednesday a paper was published showing that, so far, nothing has changed in lead ammunition use – see here. Report in the BBC – click here and listen to BBC Inside Science – click here about half way through. Report in the Telegraph – see here. The GWCT take it on the chin (and…
NEWS: No progress on lead ammunition after one year – who’d have guessed?
A year ago the shooting organisations ‘took responsibility’ for phasing out lead ammunition with a fanfare; At the time I wrote: This statement from a bunch of land owning, land managing and shooting organisations is to be welcomed but not praised. After years of hindering progress these ultra-conservative bodies have bowed to the inevitable and…
Cry havoc
This is really a story about restaurants being shut rather than damage to woodlands. It’s a bit difficult to believe that a couple of years of low culling of deer in woodlands is going to make that much difference to their ecological status. If so, it suggests that there is far too close a link…
Ban on lead ammunition in EU wetlands may apply to UK too…
Raptor-killing, poison-shooting, bog-burning, hare-killing driven grouse shooting is not having a great week. The day before yesterday, the EU (remember the EU?) Parliament voted to ban the use of lead ammunition in wetlands where ‘wetlands’ include peatlands such as blanket bogs where much (by no means all) driven grouse shooting occurs in the UK. Now,…
The experience of lead-free ammunition use in Denmark
This is not really new but what is interesting is that GWCT has recently posted this video. I don’t quite know what is going on in GWCT but something is… It shows that the UK is already over 30 years behind Denmark and it’s another example of a shooter telling UK shooters that there isn’t…
Gamebirds victory (9) – lead, another ignored factor.
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Lead ammunition was part of the Wild Justice legal challenge to DEFRA but DEFRA (and Natural England) tended to ignore it. I can see why, it’s a very difficult issue for them politically though very clear biologically. Just as readers of this blog think that Waitrose should deal with the issue of lead in the…
Waitrose and lead in game meat
You may easily have missed this statement on the Waitrose website! In fact, it took me 15 minutes to find it and I was told that it was there and what the wording was. You certainly wouldn’t find it easily if, for example, you’d heard that Waitrose had gone lead-free and you wanted to buy…