RSPB Survey Results Vastly In Favour Of Game Shooting

Recent review finds 86% of RSPB members are against a ban on shooting with conservation benefits the overriding factor

- Matt Cross

Survey results published by the RSPB have revealed that the overwhelming majority of the society’s members support game shooting.

The RSPB has been undertaking a review of its policy towards game shooting despite its Royal Charter preventing it from taking any ethical stance on the issue. The results of a series of surveys and interviews conducted as part of the review were published by RSPB conservation director Martin Harper, who claimed that: “We are doing the review because there is growing public concern and mounting scientific evidence about the environmental impacts of these types of shooting.”