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Innovative app will be a ‘vital tool’ for counting mountain hares, says BASC
New approach to counting means population data can be secured to improve hare management.
- Offbeat
Time to act on invasive species threat
An Environmental Audit Committee report has called for a ‘citizens’ army’ to tackle the growing threat from invasive species, estimated to cost Britain’s economy £1.8 billion a year.
- Offbeat
A shooter’s view of the State of Nature report
The idea there is a wildlife apocalypse is hard for me to believe. One evening recently I was in the car with my two daughters driving back down the stretch of river I look after.
- Features
How to make bee houses
Bees are hugely important to our environment and let’s be honest, they are also pretty damn awesome!
- Features
Ducks take the tube…
With mallard numbers in the UK declining and a flyway population showing a similar trend, wildfowlers across the country are using a simple but effective idea to improve the ducks’ breeding success.
- Features
Saving water voles
Once one of the UK’s most common rodents, water vole numbers have plummeted over the last 60 years from around 8 million to just 750,000.
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Plight of the Humblebee
With the numbers of bees declining around the world, gamekeepers and shooters can make a big contribution to encouraging the pollinators so vital to crops and wild plants, says Marta Jacyna.
Conservation
What’s the buzz about?
Darryl Cox, senior science and policy officer at the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, writes about how bumblebees are affected by modern farming and what we can do to help them.
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BASC gives students insight into life after college
Gamekeeping students from Reaseheath College rolled up their sleeves to carry out conservation work during a visit to BASC’s Marford Mill HQ.