Protect the Wild

Gordon Ramsay Cooked Baby Seabirds Into a ‘Delicacy’ and the Footage Is Hard to Stomach.

Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay filmed a four‑minute segment of the Guga hunt on Scotland’s Isle of Lewis, where young northern gannet chicks are killed for a traditional delicacy. The hunt operates under a narrow exemption in the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act, allowing licensed kills on the remote island of Sula Sgeir. Campaigners cite the practice as unnecessary cruelty, noting that a petition to block this year’s licence has approached 40,000 signatures. The controversy highlights a clash between cultural heritage and wildlife conservation.