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DON’T DUMP BIRDS

Why do people shoot pheasants then dump two brace in a green recycling bag like so much rubbish? The shooting community can do with all the help it can get, and this does no good at all.

It is not the first time my friend and I, out walking our dogs, have come across this along one of the roads in the Wenvoe area. We have passed word around, including to one of the local gamekeepers, who was horrified. What a waste of good food.

Chris Bunston-Croome, Glamorgan

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