201030 | Legal challenge to pheasant shooting could change the face of the Cornish countryside
Legal challenge to pheasant shooting could change the face of the Cornish countryside
Camborne & Redruth MP George Eustice will next week defend a legal challenge to the annual mass-release of seven-week-old pheasants, whose impact on the Cornish countryside is in dispute
Nationally, about 47 million pheasants are bred and released each year solely to be shot. About two-thirds escape and are later killed by predators, vehicles or disease.
The 4,500-acre Caerhays Castle estate, for example, between Truro and St Austell, attracts shooting parties from around the world.
Wild Justice claims that Defra has not properly assessed the impact of releasing such large numbers of pheasants on native wildlife. The Judicial Review also applies to Red-legged Partridges.
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