Resources
Briefings. Media. Expert voices.
Media
Non-toxic ammunition benefits all – for policy makers explaining issue and hearing from Danish hunters.
Dead by lead – explaining of the issue featuring Prof. Rafael Mateo and Martin Hojsik MEP.
Otto Goes Non-toxic – animation to explain the need for regulation of lead.
Flight of the Swans and the Danish hunters – from the Flight of the Swans project hearing the Danish experience.
AEWA interview on lead poisoning
Planet Pod podcast discussing the issue including food safety and retailing of game meat.
Hearing from the experts
John Gregson, Communications Manager, CSR, Health & Agriculture, Waitrose supermarkets, explains the need to remove lead from the food supply chain
Transitioning to non-toxic ammunition – a positive experience for Danish hunters
Professor Debbie Pain, Honorary Research Fellow, University of Cambridge, explains the impacts of exposure to lead in ammunition on human health
Non-toxic ammunition is effective – a hunter’s perspective
Key references
The European Scientists, medics and veterinary health experts’ open letters on lead ammunition and need for transition to non-toxic alternatives.
European Hunting Experts – their factsheet on Alternatives to Lead Ammunition – Sorting Fact from Fiction.
Special Issue of journal Ambio from 2019 on all aspects of lead ammunition from toxicology through practicalities, economics and policy.
Oxford Lead Symposium 2015 proceedings.