ABritish authorities recorded A 59% increase in crimes against swans, ducks and geese between 2020 and 2022The time they discovered A total of nine decapitated swans.
The data was cited by The Guardian newspaper, which reported that the type of crimes recorded ranged from airsoft guns to firing fireworks at animals. Strangled and decapitated swans and geese.
In the three years analyzed by the authorities, in Avon and Somerset, remains Two swans in an open, bloody bathtub with gunshot marks around it. In Devon and Cornwall, local authorities have recorded three separate incidents of decapitated swans. A duck was strangled using a locked barn door around its neck.
Also, a decapitated swan was found in a ditch in Dorset. An arrow goes through your bodyAnd the report also counts three cases of decapitated swans in London, one in Merseyside and one in Avon and Somerset.
In total, police in England and Wales recorded A total of 62 offenses against ducks, swans and ducks between 2020 and 2022. “Unfortunately, we doubt it What we are seeing is only the tip of the iceberg, and there may be many more wild animals that have been deliberately injuredPeople who are never found and die in a long and painful way,” he said Guardian A spokesperson for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
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