Rejected petition Lift the ban on the shooting General Licenses (GL04/05/06).

Rejected on 22 May 2019

The revocation of these three general licences will put great impact on the agricultural and shooting community: making it difficult to effectively manage the countryside.
Not only will another British sport be lost, but the revocation will put strain on farmers, land managers and much more.

https://www.safeguardpestcontrol.co.uk/impact-pests-agriculture-industry/
http://www.birdbusters.com/scare_crow_bird_control.html
https://www.pitchcare.com/news-media/canada-geese.html

You may argue to use non-lethal methods, yet these non-lethal methods don’t always work and if they do, the bird can become immune to the deterrent. An example is a bird scarer: this in the first instance works, but when the bird realises that it’s s fake and doesn’t move, it continues to do as it pleases etc.

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/258922

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.