Game: Birds

(asked on 26th January 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many release sites for non-native gamebirds there are in the UK.


Answered by
Mark Spencer Portrait
Mark Spencer
Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 3rd February 2023

The Government does not hold information on the total number of gamebird releases or their locations in the UK. However, Natural England holds data about the release of common pheasant and red-legged partridge undertaken within or close to European Protected Sites in England. In 2022 there were 235 such release locations.

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