Report shows 23% increase in attacks on animals using weapons in 2023 compared with previous year
and Wales are being fuelled by social media, with perpetrators sharing videos and photos of dead and injured wildlife and pets, animal welfare charities have warned.
“We were seeing this increase in people targeting swans, geese, ducks and other water fowl, even squirrels, with catapults for fun,” he said. “This year we’ve had a fox attacked with a catapult down in Kent, and that was teenagers involved, and a hedgehog killed in Newbury.” It found hundreds of members of catapult groups on WhatsApp, where photos and videos of animals killed or injured, often placed alongside the weapons used, are shared. In a video shared on one group, a deer with a severe head injury lies twitching on the ground, having been shot with a catapult by a child., a police-led partnership initiative the charity has helped to develop with the Essex and Metropolitan forces, would improve efforts to tackle such wildlife crimes.
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