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Get a taste for Sussex game
A Taste of Sussex game evening will combine the finest local cuisine with an after-dinner talk by one of the country’s top gamekeepers.
A Taste of Sussex game evening will combine the finest local cuisine with an after-dinner talk by one of the country’s top gamekeepers.
Forty chefs and restaurateurs from across Sussex have taken a lesson in clay pigeon shooting to help appreciate what’s needed to put the real thing, and other game, on their menus.
BASC South East to launch a series of BASC Roving Reception venues this autumn
Gundogs will compete in the BASC Chudleys Scurry League at this year’s CLA Game Fair. Individual scurries including the Long Retrieve, Obstacle and Around the Clock will be hosted in the Gundog Scurry area at the fair, which will be held at Harewood House, Leeds, Yorkshire, from 31st July – 2nd August.
Longer-term funding for biodiversity projects should be available from the landfill tax fund in England
The elected Council of the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) supports the decision of Sir Barney White-Spunner, the representative of the shooting associations, to resign from the Lead Ammunition Group (LAG).
The results of a new study by Australia’s National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) supports BASC’s position on lead ammunition: “no sound evidence, no change”.
BASC is calling on those who shoot to respond to the European Commission’s public opinion survey on the “fitness for purpose” of the birds and habitats directive.
BASC is asking shoots to help beekeepers for the benefit of bees, the countryside and shoots. Bees are essential to the wellbeing of the environment. Without bees and other pollinators, plants struggle to reproduce.