
Conservationists release predators – Fieldsports News, 8 October 2025
Here are the links: Pine martens released on Exmoor – BBC and TwoMoorsPineMartens.org Hunting worth €180 billion a year to Europe – FACE and YouTube DEFRA shadow’s
Here are the links: Pine martens released on Exmoor – BBC and TwoMoorsPineMartens.org Hunting worth €180 billion a year to Europe – FACE and YouTube DEFRA shadow’s
Here are the links: Mandatory training threatens Scottish deerstalking – BASC London hunting conference filling up fast – Hunting Kind Dyfed-Powys Police try to confiscate
Here are the links: Black grouse breeding success – GWCT NGO challenges police crime commissioner – NGO Geese arrive in Scotland – YouTube New airgun
Here are the links: Scottish crofters want stalking rights – WeLoveStornoway.com and FT.com John Muir Trust’s ‘toxic culture’ – Herald Scotland Police crush poacher’s X-Trail –
In a record year for wildfires in Britain’s uplands – 1,000 of them – only Starmer’s government could enact legislation that will make the problem
Police swooped on well-known gamekeeper Scott Shuckford and took away his guns after a member of the public reported seeing a gun in his truck.
Here are the links: Government extends burning ban – Gov.uk Arrested for shooting catapults – Kent Police YouTube Scottish greyhound ban looms – Parliament.scot Spurs
Here are the links: RSPB’s rotting stoat – RSPB Phil Gray wins British Open Sporting – Facebook livestream and CPSA results Goose shooting prospects look good
Here are the links: Rimfire world championships – ImpactScoring.net Rupert Lowe MP gets his guns back – X.com Langdale wildfire enters its third week –
When Gloucestershire Police wrote to Jack Edmunds to explain why they were revoking his shotgun certificate, they said it was because he was a murder
Here are the links: Record year for wildfires – BBC and BBC Kennel Club sells gundog trialling estate – ChronicleLive.co.uk London wildlife management conference – Bit.ly/ukwildlifeconference
Here are the links: Grouse densities down for 2025 – GWCT RSPB ‘demonising’ gamekeepers – Moorland Association Cash for firefighting gamekeepers – Cairngorms.co.uk GWT health
Here are the links: New shotgun rules – Gov.uk Online Safety Act hits gunshops – Gov.uk UN protection for fieldsports – HuntingKind.com BASC starts legal
Here are the links: Government plans to merge shotgun and firearm certificates – YouTube Trump embarrasses Starmer over family farm tax – YouTube Airguns stolen
Find out what the government has planned for the countryside, including farm inheritance tax, lead shot, trophy imports, general licences and countryside stewardship. DEFRA minister
Here are the links: Scottish Rural Party – ScottishRuralParty.co.uk Police firearms licensing failures – BASC Schoolboy stands up for fieldsports – Facebook Bear hunters warned
Here are the links: Antis lose faith in Labour – The Guardian Rigby lashes out at Labour– Telegraph Shooting gives Scotland £246m in benefits –
The world of shooting does not want a lead ammo ban. Look into it more carefully and a complex picture emerges. Charlie Jacoby talks to
Here is a complete guide to what’s on in the Game Fair Theatre at Ragley Hall, 25-27 July 2025, which is sponsored by Carter Jonas.
Anti-shooting groups have welcomed the news that the government is to ban lead shot and lead bullets in Britain. The ban is a three-year phaseout
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz7yZEGEwBI Here are the links: Let’s Learn Moor success – BASC Nesting success on managed uplands – Facebook and also on Facebook RSPB gamekeeper allegations
Here are the links: Wild Justice loses grouse shooting debate – FieldsportsChannel.tv/westminstergrousedebate2025 RSPB tries to monster gamekeepers – RSPB University fits deer with GPS collars
youtu.be/_eKYY0mrdJQ For the third time, Wild Justice ran its petition to ban grouse shooting in England. Maybe Chris Packham and Ruth Tingay thought that a
You couldn’t make it up. Darren Easton struggled to renew his certificates because Cambridgeshire Constabulary’s online form kept kicking him out, and he was stuck
Here are the links: Gun ownership falls in England and Wales – Gov.uk MP calls for firearms licensing reform – YouTube New coursing museum –
Here are the links: Moderators to come off FACs – Parliament.uk BASC sues DEFRA over gamebird release – BASC Packham show attacks falconers – Facebook
Regular UK game fair visitor Ashley Vellacott visits the French Game Fair, to see what it’s like. For more about the show, visit GameFair.fr Browning
Here are the links: Starmer’s trophy fail – FieldsportsChannel.tv/replicatrophies and FieldsportsChannel.tv/africatrophybankickback Packham group forces grouseshooting debate – Parliament.uk Scottish MSP wants to release lynx –
Here are the links: New report condemns ‘money-grabbing’ nature groups – c4pmc.co.uk Controlled burning pollution report – PPP-online.org Ravens to be shot on Orkney –
The Taylor family bought the Cricket St Thomas estate in the 1960s. They are among the original diversifiers, finding ways to make 1,000 acres in
Here are the links: Moorland groups’ message to the RSPB – YouTube Royal support for wildlife rangers – YouTube Antis attack game farms – Nation.cymru and
Here are the links: Gamekeepers support our uplands – Regional Moorland Groups Police seize MP’s guns – Linkedin.com Wild Justice challenges badger cull – Badger
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iicEsRkGpBw Here are the links: Shoots take action against DEFRA – BASC Online fire risk map – NationalGamekeepers.org.uk and Natural England Assistance dog inspires charity shoot
A software company has come up with the solution to the UK’s gun licensing woes. It will clear the backlog, it will mean the government
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwWaNTfO0f0 Here are the links: Princess Charlotte wears Jack Pyke – Instagram Have your say on new shotgun rules – Countryside Alliance Gamekeeping course closure
Here are the links: Government delays recognition of hunting culture – Gov.uk Oxford Gun Company pair lost – Facebook Scottish government’s muirburn muddle – BASC
Here are the links: Hunters take legal action against The Mirror – Mirror.co.uk Police recover stolen gundogs – BBC Sea eagle snatches lamb – Facebook
Here are the links: Deer damage the broads – EADT DEFRA bans SPA gamebird release – Gov.uk and BASC Wildfires rage on National Trust land –
Here are the links: League Against Cruel Sports boss arrested – Sky News UK uplands wildfires: Woodhead, Derbyshire – Facebook Staffordshire – ITV Northern Ireland
Here are the links: Bird flu restrictions for SPAs – GWCT Labour plans heather-burning ban – The Guardian RSPB-managed moorland ablaze – Facebook Government land
Here are the links: Gun laws may be tightened – YouTube and BASC Cheshire Police want to be told you’re going shooting – Facebook Wild Justice
Yorkshire gamekeepers James and Jono were astonished to be confronted by armed police, complete with helicopter, while heatherburning on the Upperwood estate on the edge
Here are the links: Policing minister misleads MPs – Facebook and Judiciary.uk Deer ‘damage waterways’ – Broads-Authority.gov.uk (pdf) Hen harrier brood management trial ends – NaturalEngland.blog.gov.uk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-77NW0qf8o Here are the links: Upland wildfires blamed on ‘rewetting’ – Facebook and c4pmc.co.uk Nathan Hales wins clayshooter of year – Instagram Scotland deerstalking courses surge
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VAXrluFj8E Here are the links: Sab thugs attack hunt – BehindTheMasks.co.uk Europe lays out lead ban timetable – ec.europa.eu John Rigby’s 250th birthday – YouTube
Here are the links: Scotland could halve deerstalker numbers – News.stv.tv Rubbish keeps fox numbers high – GWCT LACS tears itself apart in High Court
Here are the links: New gun grab powers – BASC Cambridgeshire licensing fail – Cambs.police.uk Shotguns could go on FACs – Countryside Alliance New shooting
Join Charlie Jacoby on a wander round the British Shooting Show 2025 looking for interesting kit, prize draws, British marques and some new thermal launches.
youtu.be/ODwzA3B4jlQ Here are the links: Certificate fee rise ‘unjustified’ say MPs – BASC Ireland faces mass deer cull – DonegalDaily.com and FRSFarmReliefServices.ie Taxpayers fund wild cat
African government officials are lining up to criticise the UK government for its plan to ban trophy imports. They say that the move is colonial,