End Bird Shooting! A call to action from our founder
Join the movement to End Bird Shooting!
Join our new campaign to End Bird Shooting!
End Bird Shooting is a bold new campaign from Protect the Wild. It’s focused on one goal: making bird shooting a toxic relic of the past.
Every year in the UK, tens of millions of pheasants and partridges are factory-farmed, released, and shot for sport. On the country’s moorlands, Red Grouse are gunned down. Across the country, shooters line up along ponds and wetlands to kill ducks and geese. It’s one of the country’s biggest hidden animal abuse scandals — and most people have no idea it’s happening.
The shooting industry thrives in silence. But we’re breaking that silence — and we’re building a movement, a community, to end bird shooting for good.
As a campaign, End Bird Shooting will be unapologetic and uncompromising.
We will attack the shooting industry like never before with exposés and investigations, with dedicated social media channels, and with an upcoming mega-site. We are putting in place a long-term strategy to expose this industry and dismantle it - and YOU can be a part of it!
We can’t do that without our supporters. Your input, your words of wisdom, your love of birds and our shared horror at the way they are treated by landowners and the shooting industry unites us and bonds us. We will encourage and drive each other forward!
And we will never forget why we are all here: to celebrate and protect the birds that inspire and fascinate us.
This is your invitation to join the movement.
By signing up, you’ll:
Join a growing community of like-minded people who care about birds and the natural world
Stay updated on the latest developments affecting birdlife across the UK through our dedicated End Bird Shooting Substack
Discover meaningful ways you can take action and help create lasting change
We’re not asking for a signature — we’re asking for your voice, your values, and your support in building an exciting new movement to end bird shooting for good.
I applaud all the efforts to save all forms of wildlife and wish my funds could stretch further! I have become a little concerned about spreading funds too thin however. I would like to be reassured the substack funds are still ringfenced, as the origins stated, for assistance to our frontline evidence gatherers on the ground. Week after week at their own expense and risk, they are out there. I want to be sure they are supported by giving them the tools they need.
As I have come to expect, Rob leads the way when it comes to the preservation of our wildlife. Quite apart from the moralty of the issue (which is a HUGE issue!) I've never been able to understand how and why anyone would have dreamed this up unless they were sociopathic - and I believe most of these hunters are just that! I understand anyone killing a wild animal because that's their only choice - I am thinking primarily of 'tribesmen' in Africa and South America. But there is no sense in spending vast amounts of money rearing these birds which are finally thrown up into the air and then used as target practice. And then renders mosts of them inedible! So the only explanation is pure sadism!
Thank you Rob - you lead and we'll gratefully follow - thank you for the leadership with all the organisation that it takes. You're the BEST!