The UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has criticised the RSPB for using the recent Mourne mountains wildfire as a platform to call for a ban on controlled burning. The fire, which the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) believe may have been started deliberately, Read more…
More than three-quarters of dog owners have taken additional actions to protect their dogs from theft over the last twelve months, according to a major new survey. The survey, conducted by the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), whose members own an estimated 166,000 dogs, comes amid growing evidence Read more…
BASC’s head of game and gundogs, Glynn Evans, has stepped down as chair of the England and Wales Poaching Priority Delivery Group (PPDG) after 10 years at the helm. The PPDG works with the National Wildlife Crime Unit (NWCU) and is focused on building a greater level of public awareness Read more…
The Wildlife Habitat Charitable Trust (WHCT) has agreed a £75,000 grant to help restore the breeding curlew population in Southern England. The grant has been awarded to the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust’s (WWT) ‘Combating the Curlew Crisis Project’, which forms part of the WWT’s overall Eurasian curlew recovery work. This Read more…
BASC’s fourth annual review of firearms licensing performance shows a wide spectrum of results, ranging from very good to “shockingly dreadful”. BASC’s director of firearms has called for consistency of performance following the publication of the review’s results in the form of a league table and said the figures strongly Read more…
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) is backing efforts by government to challenge rules which make it ‘practically impossible’ to bring game meat into Northern Ireland. Game meat, leaving Great Britain for personal consumption has fallen foul of Brexit, meaning Northern Ireland visitors to Great Britain must comply Read more…
BASC is strongly opposed to vague and ill-prepared proposals within the Welsh Labour manifesto, titled ‘Moving Wales forward’, launched in the run up to the elections on 6 May. The manifesto outlines proposals that will: Introduce “registration for animal welfare establishments, commercial breeders for pets or for shooting” Ban the Read more…
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has written to all prospective Police and Crime Commissioners (PCC) to request assurances that improvements will be made to the firearms licensing system if they are successfully elected on 6 May. As the only shooting organisation that monitors the performance of firearms Read more…
Pupils at 45 schools across Suffolk will have flat-packed bird boxes waiting for them when they return following the latest lockdown courtesy of the UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC). BASC has put the packs together and will help teachers and pupils assemble the Read more…
