WAWC highlights welfare harms of lead ammunition

Written By Libby Anderson

WAWC has responded to the Health and Safety Executive consultation on the use of lead ammunition in the UK, highlighting the welfare harms caused to wild animals by lead contamination in the environment.

WAWC Chair, Pete Goddard, said:

“While this is primarily a consultation about socio-economic factors, we wanted to add our voice for animal welfare, to augment the widespread calls for a ban on lead ammunition on environmental grounds. Environmental contamination and secondary poisoning of scavenging and predatory birds and mammals need to be addressed, meaning that restrictions should apply to lead bullets as well as lead shot.”

See the WAWC submission in the Resources section.

Libby Anderson https://www.wawcommittee.org/
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