The use of lead shot has adverse environmental impacts on birds, particularly on wetland bird species. Birds such as gamebirds and wildfowl ingest spent lead gunshot mistakenly for food or the grit that helps them to grind up food in their muscular gizzards. Ingestion of lead gunshot by waterfowl is associated with increased death rates. As a signatory to the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) the UK agreed to phase out the use of lead shot in wetlands.
Lead shot ammunition
Commons Debate pack by Elena Ares
and
Jacqueline Baker.
It was first published on Thursday, 3 December 2015.
It was last updated on Monday, 7 December 2015.
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