The Northern director of the UK’s largest shooting organisation has heralded the start of the pheasant shooting season, saying it is worth celebrating the tradition as well as “far-reaching ...

Photographically it’s been a year of shooting new sports. Mainly Olympic and Paralympic sports but this past week it’s been country sport in the form of pheasant shooting. It’s funny but it’s only now ...

Three years into a five-year pledge to completely phase out lead shot in UK game hunting, a study finds that 94% of pheasants on sale for human consumption were killed using lead. Three years into a ...

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Animal Aid's Killing Our Countryside campaign is calling on MPs to support a ban on the shooting of pheasants and partridges.

Every year around 50 million pheasants are reared by gamekeepers on private land and released into the British countryside. But are pheasants livestock, or are they wild animals? The answer, it seems, ...