Agricultural and forestry businesses in Wales can now apply for funding towards the cost of the BASC shotgun coaching qualification and the game meat hygiene certificate.
Gamekeepers, shoot beaters and pickers-up from across the UK are counting down to one of the highlights of the gundog calendar – Crufts 2010 – where they will be showing their working dogs in the gamekeeping classes.
Eighty eight game and wildlife management students from nine colleges in England and Wales will get together to determine who is the best shot at the first gamekeeping student clay shoot challenge to be organised by the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC).
The search is on to find the sharpest-shooting gamekeeper in the UK.
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) will co-sponsor Feast East 2010, the regional food festival for the East of England, on 5th and 6th March 2010. Feast East will be held at Chilford Hall, near Linton in South-East Cambridgeshire.
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) will co-sponsor Feast East 2010, the regional food festival for the East of England, on 5th and 6th March 2010. Feast East will be held at Chilford Hall, near Linton in South-East Cambridgeshire.
Peter Salisbury, a popular gamekeeper from Drinkstone Road, Gedding, Suffolk, passed away recently aged 56.
A campaign to support British game rearers has been launched by the UK?s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC). It aims to encourage all gamekeepers, shoot owners and shoot managers to source their eggs and young birds from local producers who use traditional methods and high welfare standards.
A Brussels-based wildlife expert visited the head office of the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) near Wrexham to share his knowledge with staff. Gabor von Bethlenfalvy, conservation project manager for the Federation of Associations for Hunting and Conservation of the EU (FACE), met staff at BASC?s offices at Marford Mill, Rossett.
