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New move to hit Christmas poachers
The battle to tackle poachers has been stepped up this Christmas as deer and salmon become the number one targets for criminal gangs operating with no regard for animal welfare or the law.
The battle to tackle poachers has been stepped up this Christmas as deer and salmon become the number one targets for criminal gangs operating with no regard for animal welfare or the law.
The year-round management of two species of gulls is to continue in Scotland, but with a warning that evidence of the practice being carried out must be submitted or the legal basis for control could be removed.
Young shots and their parents will be able to take part in a unique wildfowling experience in Scotland next month.
BASC Young Shot, Adam Bayly, has spent the last two wildfowling seasons learning his craft with his dad Jason. The 12 year old, who lives in Cornwall, is now enjoying his first fowling season with his own gun.
One of the UK’s top game chefs, Kevin Roxby, will be making his first appearance at the National Countrysports Fair in Moira Demesne in Northern Ireland on 29-30 May 2010.
From 1 December, BASC members will be able to insure their guns under a new tailor-made scheme launched by the Association.
More than 700 people got to taste some of the best food on offer in the south west during a special event in Exeter on 18 November to mark National Taste of Game Week.
A nine-year-old boy enjoyed his first beating experience on his grandfather’s shoot in Essex this month.
The wildfowling warden for the south shore of the Upper Humber was presented with a new telescope at the BASC roadshow in Doncaster last week.