I've enjoyed firework shows since I was a little runt and I'm the first in line to ask for a blanket ban on them.

It's a proven wildfires cause, horrible for wild life in general, terrible for pets and people with anxiety and related issues and it leaves a mess behind that nobody wants to pick up afterwards.

And firework making is a very dangerous occupation.

This is one tradition I am more than happy and willing to let go.

Aren't night time laser shows and drone swarm shows a thing already?

Also, domestic animals. I know people who have to spike their cats’ food with tranquillisers during fireworks season

For some absolutely unknown reason, increasingly we have people driving out of towns and cities, to beautiful wooded areas, letting off fireworks.

I'm loving all the recent talk about things like this around the world to consider the animals' wellbeing from firework displays.

Animals' bodies can function very differently from ours and some already have heart rates, respiration, or metabolisms already working at the max limits they can withstand. Stress kills a lot of animals. The article mentions lots of birds dying from collisions trying to escape danger they cannot understand, but rabbits, for example can get toxic surges of adrenaline that will kill them from extreme stress triggers.

On New Year’s Day in 2025, more than 1,000 birds were found dead near a hiking trail in Bulgaria, just over a kilometre from a site where fireworks had been set off, after panicked birds flew into trees and each other.

Last year on New Year's Eve, I walked to the shops in the morning and heard some newly hatched chicks up in a tree, aggressively chirping to be fed by momma bird.
In the evening, the neighbor on the other side of the street set off one of those firework batteries which only go, well, about as high as a tree.

So, basically those chicks either had a heart attack or are traumatized for life.