For centuries, a small group of men have travelled to Sula Sgeir, a remote and uninhabited rocky island, to carry out the annual guga hunt, to kill thousands of young gannets. It’s practice and methods are out of date and inhumane.

Chicks are lifted from their nests using a noose or grasper attached to a pole, before being struck on the head, decapitated, gutted and salted for the return journey to Lewis. It’s the only seabird that is allowed to be killed under license.

This year NatureScot, the Scottish Government’s nature agency, denied the license for conservation and animal welfare reasons. But what about next year and the year after that?

The guga hunt needs to end for good to save future chicks from unnecessary death.

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