We can save generations of animals in 15 seconds

Please take action and spare a tiny fraction of your day

Hi everyone,

I need you to take 15 seconds to do something that really matters and will save generations of animals from immense suffering.

A bunch of men who call themselves the “Men of Ness” have, for hundreds of years, travelled to a remote Scottish island and carried out one of the most sickening acts of cruelty still allowed in the UK. They “hunt” guga, gannet chicks who cannot even fly. The chicks are dragged away with a rod while their parents scream and circle overhead, helpless, watching the only chick they will raise that year being taken. Then the men cave in their heads and bludgeon them to death right there. It is brutal, deliberate, and completely indefensible.

And it is still legal. Not because it is right, not because it is necessary, but because Section 16 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 permits it.

We are backing wildlife photographer Rachel Bigsby’s Scottish Government petition to amend Section 16 and end this hunt for good. This is the moment to stop pretending this is some harmless “tradition.” It is a sanctioned massacre of baby birds, and it has no place in modern Scotland or anywhere else in the UK.

The petition is currently at 10,632 signatures. Our target is 33,000, which would make it the most signed petition in the history of the Scottish Government site. We can get there in a matter of hours if every person reading this signs right now. You can sign as a citizen of any UK nation.

167,920 people have been sent this email. The entire Protect the Wild community. If even a fraction of us act today, we end this. Not next year. Not after another season of slaughter. Now.

Please be one of the brilliant people to sign the petition.

Thank you,
Rob