The Government of Botswana has formally condemned British MP Sir Roger Gale for his attack on Botswana’s president. As reported in Fieldsports News, in an
youtu.be/Q9SrEoqVFcY Armed officers from Nottinghamshire Police arrived at the home of gundog trainer Karl Sawyer last August. When he refused to hand his shotguns over
A senior Tory MP has lashed out at the president of Botswana. In an online video, Sir Roger Gale said Mokgweetsi Masisi committed ‘vandalism’ for
by Ian Coghill It is odd what triggers a train of thought. The origins of this are some of the language chosen for the BBC
by Deborah Hadfield Hunters and shooters are still fighting for their lives in Ukraine. Taras Oliynyk works for local gunshop IBIS Hunting and Guns in
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPto2VXJyEg Here are the links: Sabs face trial over Boxing Day hunt clash – BBC Peak District gamekeepers reject blue hare study – Fieldsports News
Boris Johnson’s animal rights allies are spitting fur and feathers. The animal welfare (sentience) bill will receive royal assent and become law, but it does
A major sale of hunting trophies takes place today (20 April 2022) in Yorkshire. Thanks to a revival in hanging game heads on walls, Tennants
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8viV4RyvDY by Deborah Hadfield Rising prices are forcing people into poverty in Ireland. There are now 7,000 homeless in the country, and 2,500 of them
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMvMjOOExMk Here are the links: Highland buyout folds losing millions – Twitter + Scottish Mail on Sunday Sea eagle cull call for killing lambs –
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyR1vxdXE6U by Deborah Hadfield The firearms licensing system in England and Wales is in crisis. Shooters claim the fiasco has made getting a grant, renewal,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcoKDd85CmQ Here are the links: Welsh farmers fear general licences change – Fieldsports News Westminster government advises us to eat venison – Telegraph Shoot price
Game feed is 32% more expensive and poults are up by a half, if they are available at all. That’s the conclusion of one shoot
by Deborah Hadfield and Charlie Jacoby Former Metropolitan police detective Ian Jensen says police have limited legal rights to take a gun. He says: “The
A serving police officer wrote this for Fieldsports News on condition of anonymity I, too, have been duped into coercively handing over my legally and
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4xkgjLhVB4 by Deborah Hadfield and Charlie Jacoby Many shooters have lost their guns to police in the South-West of England since the shooting in Plymouth
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEctbsFPXbA by Deborah Hadfield and Charlie Jacoby Paul Cox is a respected member of his community, a deerstalker and captain of the local shoot. Devon
youtu.be/NRY47rdRvgc by Deborah Hadfield and Charlie Jacoby Adam Troman was lying in bed on a Sunday morning when armed police arrived, unannounced, to take away
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTpQrSfjNn4 by Deborah Hadfield and Charlie Jacoby Stories are piling up of legal shooters in Devon, Cornwall and Dorset, with decades of blameless firearms ownership
by Deborah Hadfield and Charlie Jacoby Nigel Doney from Cornwall has been shooting for 40 years. He had an unexpected police visit after he sold
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqbEqxkWtEo by Deborah Hadfield and Charlie Jacoby Devon & Cornwall Constabulary started revoking shooters’ certificates in August 2021. Back then, the situation was confused. A
by Deborah Hadfield and Charlie Jacoby Gary Ivey was returning home from a day’s shooting in October 2021 to his home in Plymouth when one
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL1udSdtJTU Here are the links: Bird flu may hit partridge imports – NGO UK trophy import ban still twitching – The Guardian + AfricaHunting.com UK
There’s a new group to help hunting. HuntingKind.com is lobbying the UK parliaments in Westminster, Holyrood, Cardiff and Stormont to help stop bans on hunting
The RSPB is trying to ramp up the importance of white-tailed eagles to tourism. In a new report, the birdwatching organisation says that white-tailed or
youtu.be/BjlFn8H3zBg by Deborah Hadfield The hunting season in Ukraine runs from September until February. Ukrainians and overseas hunters stalk wild boar, deer and mouflon. Bear
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zArS1ApwfME Here are the links: Wales mulls magpie shooting ban – Fieldsports News BASC welcomes new firearms licensing database – BASC Poachers convicted of killing
The RSPB stands accused of ‘forgetting the birds’ – chasing money and political power instead of ‘saving’ birds as its members and donors fondly imagine.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRkGmRB1bxY by Deborah Hadfield Around the world, people are watching the relentless and ruthless assault on Ukraine. Many are not just horror-struck. They are moved
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7nujNMWZog You want a healthy herd of deer, in numbers that don’t cause environmental damage, and visible enough to admire in Scotland’s beautiful Highlands? Apparently,
by Deborah Hadfield A conservation group claims that the Spanish government plans to slaughter 5,000 red deer in a national park. Robbie Kroger of Blood
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ipoEJkVjDY Here are the links: Shooters across Europe support Ukraine – Fieldsports News Fundraising for family of dead gamekeeper in Northamptonshire – GoFundMe Vinnie backs
by Deborah Hadfield Shooters from across Europe are supporting refugees. The International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation is mobilising its members and partners to
by Deborah Hadfield Shooters say Boris Johnson and Lord Zac Goldsmith are being sneaky about trying to introduce a ban on the import and export
youtu.be/CtvSfaxuAxA by Deborah Hadfield A rare auction of taxidermy items including endangered animals spotlights the issue of hunting tourism. It begs the question: are trophies
by Deborah Hadfield Where are we on lead shot? A study by Cambridge University, reported in the Guardian, finds that 99.5% of 215 pheasants killed
youtu.be/nxttOfnvc6Y by Charlie Jacoby Among the many stories of good, ordinary shooters losing their guns to Devon & Cornwall Police’s gun grab, the story of
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNoEtl21130 Here are the links: Cornish police grab more guns – Fieldsports News Ukraine war spills over into shooting sports – JaegerforBundet.dk + ISSF Farmers
A Plymouth MP is reacting to the tragic Keyham shootings in August 2021 by introducing a bill to ban pump-action guns. Plymouth Sutton and Devonport
by Deborah Hadfield The League Against Cruel Sports has introduced a Hunting with Dogs bill for Scotland to replace the law it wrote in 2002.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F05iyrkMUE Here are the links: UK government may U-turn on fur and foie gras import ban – BBC + Forbes Storms cause death and destruction
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0koIQQvX_M by Deborah Hadfield Is there a shake-up heading towards the world of wildlife counting? Since the 1980s, scientists have taken control of the job
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6MA8TOddXQ Here are the links: Gunmaker settles with Sandy Hook families – BBC Police investigate sea eagle deaths – Daily Mail Antis protest at German
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6TdqOuKcTA Animal welfare consultant Jim Barrington goes on a tour of hare poaching victims in the Eastern Counties of England. With poachers damaging crops and
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FwbpXAnxRY Here are the links: Telehandler farmer cleared of damaging Corsa – BBC Brewer’s tree planting scheme attacked over cull – Telegraph National Crime Agency
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRq7J6qNBow Here are the links: Cheshire sabs in the dock – Leicestershire Police Gamekeeper kills two buzzards – youtu.be/VCN3ME-W6k0 NatureScot punishes curlews for dead hen
youtu.be/IdSBQzMpaWE As Lord Zac Goldsmith tries to push through a ban on trophy imports to the UK, which would effectively be a ban on hunting
youtu.be/lTfYwBQU698 With just days until the British Shooting Show 2022 at the NEC outside Birmingham, organisers are working at full tilt. They have been hard
Lord Zac Goldsmith wants to ban trophy imports to the UK because he thinks it will help wildlife. He could not be more wrong, as
Here are the links: Ban plan bumped down by government – Guardian Sermon on the mounting hunting tourism hysteria – Mirror Packham ‘stuns’ viewers with
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