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Voluntary transition by hunters and game meat suppliers from lead to non-lead shotgun ammunition: changes in practice after three years.

Published online: 29 May 2024

Authors: Green, R. E. & Taggart, M. A. & Pain, D. J. & Clark, N. A. & Clewley, L. & Cromie, R. & Green, R. M. W. & Giui, M. & Huntley, B. & Huntley, J. & Leslie, R. & Porter, R. & Roberts, J. & Robinson, J. A. & Robinson, R. A. & Sheldon, R. & Smith, K. W. & Smith, L. & Spencer, J. & Stroud, D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Conservation Evidence

In 2020, UK shooting and rural organisations pledged to achieve a voluntary transition from the use of lead shotgun ammunition to non-lead alternative...

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Effectiveness of regulations intended to reduce the use of lead shotgun ammunition in and over coastal intertidal and riparian habitats in Scotland.

Published online: 28 May 2024

Authors: Green, R. E. & Goater, R. & Hodgson, D. & Lang, I. & Orr-Ewing, D. C. & Pickett, D. & Swann, B.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Conservation Evidence

The use of lead shot for hunting in wetlands is banned in many countries because ingestion of spent shot causes lead poisoning of wildfowl. In Scotlan...

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Lead in small mammals, plants, and soil at varying distances from a highway.

Published online: 01 Jan 1975

Authors: Quarles, H. D. & Hanawalt, R. B. & Odum, W. E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

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Performance of habitat offsets for species conservation in dynamic human-modified landscapes.

Published online: 16 Nov 2024

Authors: Rhodes, J. R. & Liu Yan & Wahyudi, A. & Maron, M. & Iftekhar, M. S. & Brisbane, S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: People and Nature

Biodiversity offsets are a popular policy tool for mitigating the impact of development on biodiversity, but the ecological success of offsets arise f...

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Evidence of widespread illegal hunting of waterfowl in England despite partial regulation of the use of lead shotgun ammunition.

Published online: 14 May 2022

Authors: Stroud, D. A. & Pain, D. J. & Green, R. E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Conservation Evidence

Shooting of birds using lead shotgun ammunition was legal for all quarry species in the UK until 1st September 1999, when the Environmental Protection...

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Effectiveness of an assurance scheme for wild-shot game meat products in promoting a voluntary transition from the use of lead to non-lead ammunition for hunting.

Published online: 26 Sep 2023

Authors: Green, R. E.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Ecological Solutions and Evidence

A consensus has emerged in the United Kingdom that a transition away from the use of lead ammunition for hunting game animals would be desirable to re...

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Effectiveness of actions intended to achieve a voluntary transition from the use of lead to non-lead shotgun ammunition for hunting in Britain.

Published online: 01 Aug 2023

Authors: Green, R. E. & Taggart, M. A. & Pain, D. J. & Clark, N. A. & Clewley, L. & Cromie, R. & Dodd, S. G. & Elliot, B. & Green, R. M. W. & Huntley, B. & Huntley, J. & Pap, S. & Porter, R. & Robinson, J. A. & Sheldon, R. & Smith, K. W. & Smith, L. & Spencer, J. & Stroud, D.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Conservation Evidence

In 2020, nine major UK shooting and rural organisations proposed a voluntary transition from the use for hunting of lead shotgun ammunition to non-lea...

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Reimagining conservation translocations through two-eyed seeing.

Published online: 04 Nov 2020

Authors: Rayne, A. & Byrnes, G. & Collier-Robinson, L. & Hollows, J. & McIntosh, A. & Ramsden, M. & Rupene, M. & Tamati-Elliffe, P. & Thoms, C. & Steeves, T. E.

Content type: Blog

This Perspective, as Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers and practitioners working in partnership under Te Tiriti o Waitangi (The Treaty of Wait...

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Water use by irrigated cotton in the Sudan. 4. Water use, potential evaporation and yield.

Published online: 01 Jan 1976

Authors: Rijks, D. A.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Estimates of water used by irrigated cotton crops, obtained by micrometeorological methods, soil water sampling and lysimetry, were related to Penman'...

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Bud-feeding by bullfinches: methods for spreading damage evenly within orchards.

Published online: 01 Jul 1987

Authors: Greig-Smith, P. W.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

To explore possible ways of reducing the effets of bud-eating in orchards, captive bullfinches [Pyrrhula pyrrhula] were studied in an aviary simulatio...

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