Sorting the facts from RSPB fiction

[Conor O'Gorman]

The RSPB continues to ignore the available evidence and importance of shooting to conservation, the economy, and mental health and wellbeing, by openly campaigning for a nationwide moratorium on releasing gamebirds.

The RSPB’s recommendation of a moratorium is made on the basis of a precautionary approach to limit the spread of avian influenza in wild birds. However, the evidence and current situation with High Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in both kept and wild birds shows that cases have been falling since the end of 2022.

The RSPB seems unable to understand that gamebird release underpins the viability of most shoots. Without these shoots, all the associated benefits to the economy, local communities, and not least the thousands of hours of crucial conservation work that benefit the very birds the RSPB, BASC, and others, want to see flourish, would be lost.

Also, the call for a moratorium at this point in time fails to recognise that production of stock for release this year is well underway; what would the RSPB proposes happens to them?

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1 hour ago, Conor O'Gorman said:

The RSPB seems unable to understand that gamebird release underpins the viability of most shoots.

Methinks that RSPB& fellow travellers are very well aware and consider it as one of their main stratagems to put an end to "game shooting".