People can improve both their shooting and shoot management skills at a course run by the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) and the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT). A Shooting for the Future course will be held at the Allerton Project Visitor Centre in Loddington, Leicestershire, on Read more…
BASC is set to boost its presence in South East England with the recruitment of an additional regional officer and a move to bigger offices. With a growing membership, now at over 144,500 nationally, BASC is making additional investment to bolster frontline services for members. The creation of the new Read more…
The Scottish Government has confirmed its vets have found a strain of avian (H5) flu at a poultry farm near Dunfermline, Fife. Initial tests have suggested it is a “low pathogenic strain” but poultry farmers across Scotland are urged to be vigilant. Within the one-kilometre control zone, a range of Read more…
BASC has responded to the publication of the Welsh Government’s consultation paper ‘Promoting the conservation of White-fronted Geese in Wales’ by warning against over regulation and the damage that this can do to nature and threatened species.
Duncan Thomas, BASC regional officer for the North West has been appointed acting Regional Director for Northern England.
THE number of new women members joining BASC each year has risen by a third in the last four years.
BASC is appealing to those who attended the inaugural Gamekeepers’ Fair in 1976 to help celebrate the event’s 40th anniversary.
ENDANGERED water voles are surviving on two Welsh rivers following a successful BASC-led campaign to control mink.
Many Congratulations to BASC member Joe Neville for his well-deserved MBE in the New Year’s Honours list for “services to Competitive Shooting”.
