05/12/2018
The UK
and Welsh governments have decided to remove Greenland
White-fronted Goose from the list of legal quarry during the
open season.
The
decision, which has been welcomed by conservation charities such as the
Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT), will ensure that the declining subspecies
can no longer be hunted across England and Wales.
Greenland
White-fronted Goose breeds in the coastal fringe of west Greenland and winters
exclusively in Britain and Ireland, with the largest numbers found in Co
Wexford and on Islay, Argyll. The rest of the population is mainly concentrated
at regular wintering haunts across western Scotland and north-western and
western Ireland. Annual counts show that the population wintering in Britain
and Ireland has dropped by a third in the last decade, with only around 20,000
expected this winter, and consequently it is of the highest conservation
concern among the UK's geese, being afforded Red status.
Wales and
England were the only countries left on the goose's migration route that still
allowed them to be hunted – a ban is already in place in Greenland, Iceland,
Scotland and all of Ireland.
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