“…The quality of that umbrella has, however, been questioned: āUnfortunately there is a perversion of gamekeeping that breeds pheasants like battery chickensā¦with this comes cutting back the undergrowth, reducing a wood to a scatter of timber over ā¦ grasses and sedgesā (Rackham, ). The environmental impacts of largeāscale pheasant releases are not well understood, but it is known that they can have impacts on biodiversity in woodland (Neumann, Holloway, Sage, & Hoodless, ; Sage et al, ), grassland (Callegari, Bonham, Hoodless, Sage, & Holloway, ) and hedgerow (Sage, Woodburn, Draycott, Hoodless, & Clarke, ). Supplementary feeding of released pheasants may increase the risk of disease transmission among wildlife at feeders (Lawson et al, ), attract rats (SanchezāGarcia, Buner, & Aebischer, ) and drive ecological change in wildlife populations (Robb, McDonald, Chamberlain, & Bearhop, ).…”