DEFRA’s crisis over general licences is helping to kill the rural vote for the Tories. Charlie Jacoby had two chats with BASC staff Gareth Dockerty,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa99-n1tJ30 The anger in the countryside is palpable. It came to a head at the 2023 Game Fair, when Tory MPs lined up to criticise
www.youtube.com/watch?v=srDW6v7UWoY by Deborah Hadfield New general licences in Wales are bad news for rare birds and worse news for farmers. From 1 July 2022, Welsh
Updated 23 March 2022 This page shows advice by country: England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland After two years of shambles, general licences across the UK
Wild Justice has lost its court case to limit pest control in Wales. In a High Court judgement, Judge Jarman QC rejected all three of
Ben O’Rourke It’s a sunny Friday afternoon in the sleepy seaside town of Hunstanton, Norfolk. With the end of the coronavirus lockdown in sight, families
Wildfowling in England in 2020 could be banned because of Natural England bureaucracy and Wild Justice’s legal threats against pigeonshooting. After Wild Justice’s lawyers threatened
Grouseshooter George Winn Darley takes pride in the number of rare birds on his moor. However, for the past two years Natural England has been
The civil servant at the heart of Natural England’s disastrous handling of the 2019 general licences crisis is the new chief executive of Natural England.
Here are the links: Wild Justice aims at Welsh general licences – Crowd Justice Shooters back NHS charity raffles: John Rothery, Jack Pyke, The Shooting
Here are the links: General licences reissued on temporary basis Fcha.nl/generallicences Boris Johnson renews promise for ban on hunting trophy imports – Mirror Defra holds
Here are the links: General licences trouble Fcha.nl/generallicences Scottish deer massacre Fcha.nl/deer-are-dead-long-live-trees ‘Unsafe’ shooting range allegation – Evening Standard Huntsmen found not guilty – press
Here are the links: DEFRA general licences and trophy hunting chaos – trophy hunting consultation Kids try for schools pistol championships Issy Bailey’s Instagram British
The 12 December 2019 election night was an excellent night for hunting and shooting, as three out of four target antis lost their seats, and
In this week’s news: New general licences survey Bit.ly/defrasurvey Calor Gas gives £5,000 to LACS – website Gloucestershire shooters winning the ‘boar war’ RSPCA kills
Chris Packham’s Wild Justice group has withdrawn its latest legal action against the Government over the general licences saying it has ‘run out of time’.
As the UK general licences chaos continues, we go to the Netherlands to see how they shoot pest birds there. We join shooters Igor Timmermans
Charlie Jacoby sits in on the parliamentary committee charged with finding out what went wrong at Natural England to have caused such chaos with the
We visit Cheverton Farm on the Isle of Wight, where ravens, crows and other birds have killed 200 lambs in spring 2019. The farm has
Shooters, farmers and other country people are planning a London March on Saturday 29 June 2019. It starts at 11am at Speakers’ Corner, Hyde Park,
The first of the new general licences is not fit for purpose, the second ‘appalling’. That’s what shooting organisations are telling Natural England. The National
Two shooters – the same problem. How do they shoot pest birds legally? Shooter A is a pest controller on a large arable farm in
Crow’s out after jackdaws just before the government withdraws the general licences. He has a good day – but he explains what the havoc caused
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