Game over for UK shooting season as bird flu and Brexit take a heavy toll
by James Tapper from Environment | The Guardian on (#61ZQM)
Avian virus outbreak in France and trade barriers have left gamekeepers facing redundancy and shoots likely to go bankrupt
Bird flu has managed to do to game shooting what animal rights activists have been trying to achieve for decades - with a little help from Brexit.
Dozens of pheasant and partridge shoots have been called off ahead of the shooting season after an unprecedented outbreak of avian flu in France left gamekeepers in the UK with few birds to rear.
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