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Geese Disappear Amid Christmas Demand: Residents Take Action

12/19/2025

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Geese disappearances in the UK raise concern as Christmas approaches, with 70 geese shot and butchered in Norfolk and Cambridgeshire and five missing from Black Ash Park in Newport.
Councillor Allan Morris links the disappearances to demand for Christmas dinners and urges shoppers to buy geese from supermarkets, stating the pattern is not due to natural causes.
Local residents formed Goose Watch to monitor the remaining birds.

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Geese disappearances in the UK raise concern as Christmas approaches, with 70 geese shot and butchered in Norfolk and Cambridgeshire and five missing from Black Ash Park in Newport.
Councillor Allan Morris links the disappearances to demand for Christmas dinners and urges shoppers to buy geese from supermarkets, stating the pattern is not due to natural causes.
Local residents formed Goose Watch to monitor the remaining birds.