Category: Cruelty to birds

  • Releasing captive bred pheasants should be abandonment.

    Releasing captive bred pheasants should be abandonment.

    No legitimate reason to abandon millions of hapless birds each year. On Good Friday 2019, the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) allegedly raided a large pheasant and partridge hatchery in Mildenhall, Suffolk and released 9,000 pheasants into the countryside as part of their “dismantle the shooting industry farm by farm, shoot by shoot”. Later thousands were…

  • Living in Harmony with Wildlife – Algarve Storks

    Living in Harmony with Wildlife – Algarve Storks

    The Portuguese Revere their Storks We can learn a lot about living in harmony with wildlife from the residents of the Algarve in Portugal. They seem to absolutely revere the Stork and it is both a wonderful spectacle and a pleasure to see how the Portuguese seem to embrace the thousands of storks arriving from…