Top prof says why animal rights extremists are wrong about trophy hunting
Professor Adam Hart speaks up for hunting tourism. He is one of the few British academics brave enough to support regulated trophy hunting. Science says
Professor Adam Hart speaks up for hunting tourism. He is one of the few British academics brave enough to support regulated trophy hunting. Science says
Here are the links: Antis brand hunter a serial killer in hate campaign – Fieldsports News Antis lose fight to ban English boxing day hunt
The government is backing a private member’s bill to ban the import of hunting trophies. DEFRA minister Rebecca Pow told the House of Commons: “I
youtu.be/UZgLSd2xDtk It’s all about difficult deer and easy pheasants this week. Helen Tinner is in the Scottish borders after a sika stag. With guide Nathan
The RSPB president says that shooters are ‘subhuman’, a senior RSPB official tells lies about raptor persecution to a live audience, and the RSPB ‘bird
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEIG8RaGeGg Here are the links: Hunt master fined £600 for failing to call hounds – Shropshire Star Farmer’s sale of the century – Farmer’s Weekly
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUtMSAbbkJE A team of young guns go on a driven shoot experience day in North Wales. They get a chance to shoot pheasant, partridge and
youtu.be/Alc8SuIOviQ Paul Childerley is in a strange country with strange rifle and bullets, and a mission to supply meat for the camp. He is after
It’s Ian Coghill, ex chairman of the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust, vs Duncan Orr-Ewing of the RSPB, slugging it out on the Carter Jonas
by Deborah Hadfield Emma Stander believes that big game hunting needs an influx of women. She says it would boost the hunting business – and
youtu.be/28bOufT6twM Here are the links: RSPB ‘persecution’ report attacks gamekeepers – Sky + Fieldsports News Wildfire destroys National Trust Snowdonia land – Liverpool Echo Bird
With wild boar the world’s number-one big-game pest, Tim Pilbeam learns how to sit out and wait for them with a thermal spotter and a
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqfVyJd5mQc Here are the links: Practical shotgunning under attack from newspapers – Worcester orton Shooting Club film + Bisley film Footballer fined for poaching –
youtu.be/Sx5G1Cn4vho by Ben O’Rourke Ask a wildlife enthusiast how to fund conservation in Africa without hunting tourism, or trophy hunting as some like to call
youtu.be/c-VlnQpCK0Q With police firearms licensing across Devon, Cornwall and Dorset in meltdown, local country and gun shops are having to diversify. Martin and Chris Lamb
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9dLd3jU-yY Niall Rowantree heads to Swedish Lapland to hunt moose, and toys with the idea of releasing them in Scotland. Well, why not? That’s not
youtu.be/bQJRBQqy1io by Deborah Hadfield Kevin and Val Russell run Hawkstone Falconry in Yorkshire. With the bird flu outbreak following two years of covid, businesses such
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjry5Pr8xTk Paul heads up the hill for the stalk of his life. He is in Scotland for the red rut, and he is out to
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrPFJWxvLe0 Here are the links: UK welcomes grouse-shooting prime minister – Countryside Alliance RSPB fresh attack on gamebird releasing – BASC Scottish Hunting With Dogs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ0LSBrymy8 Roy Lupton is out after foxes and starts with a problem fallow pricket. He goes on from that to have a bumper foxshooting night.
youtu.be/IIjLEHg58bo by Deborah Hadfield it is one of the most challenging birds you can shoot in the UK. Woodcock shooters are considered among the elite
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIjLEHg58bo Here are the links: Bird flu spreads across UK – DEFRA Antis march on London – Evening Standard Scottish gamekeepers blame conservation industry for
www.youtube.com/watch?v=79UzdIffh-w Head to the home of British shooting, Bisley, to see rifle shooting at its finest. With superlative skill and kit, F Class shooters get
by Deborah Hadfield The UK is facing its largest ever outbreak of avian influenza. DEFRA confirms more than 170 cases in less than 12 months
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj4KVFihX2M It’s been a long, sad summer for Geoff Garrod. The reason? No pigeons to shoot. At last they are back, and he is in
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-ZTyyoU7B8 Here are the links: Scottish gundogs could be caught in foxhunting clampdown – The Scottish Farmer Police plan ‘public immunity’ gun licence legal swerve
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRr0vpam8LI Gareth Wyn Jones is the outspoken Welsh hill farmer who starred in the BBC’s The Family Farm. He believes that the disconnection between town
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEAU6cYf10U The Ukrainian army needs gamekeeping trucks. They are less of a target than military trucks and they have amazing offroad capabilities. Step forward London
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pziEGd1JYxQ Foxshooting, gamekeepers’ vehicles, rifle accuracy, bird flu, a venison recipe and the story of a rifle – it’s a truly packed programme this week.
The Cecil the lion story was simply a fundraiser for a Zimbabwean NGO. That’s the conclusion of big game hunter Ron Thomson, who has spoken
youtu.be/EjbfeeA0utk With the firearms licensing system in crisis, barrister Nick Doherty fears there’s an increased risk of a tragic incident. Nick, who wrote The Firearms
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVIGCCOKCSU How to turn a pigeon shooting problem into a success story. Dan Thor is decoying pigeons on crops in Essex. It doesn’t start well
youtu.be/8wOi9m3R1Kg Here are the links: Antis fail to ban trail hunting on Cornish council land – Countryside Alliance Trail hunting ban remains on NRW land
www.youtube.com/watch?v=50j800QOEoM The world’s biggest grouse, capercaillie, were abundant in Scotland within living memory. Since then, a combination of hopeless management by the RSPB and a
youtu.be/KU-11RVVDwQ by Deborah Hadfield The role of trophy hunting in conservation and the economic survival of communities in Africa is in the spotlight. A new
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AUCgsLwyT4 Here are the links: HM Queen’s funeral gun salute – Facebook + Twitter Police face criminal investigation over Plymouth shooting – Independent Office for
by Deborah Hadfield For a people who have seen more than their share of fighting, the anti-hunting lobby is drawing up new battle lines. In
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCLVU-L4Kk8 A muntjac takes Helen Tinner by surprise. She is out stalking deer on the Le Strange Shoot in North Norfolk with her new Browning
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKmpo0iJa20 Here are the links: Balmoral gamekeepers carry Queen’s coffin – Fieldsports News Anglers consider legal action over pollution – Glos Live Anti-hunting Goldsmith family
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II had a lifelong love of the countryside. Born in Mayfair, she once told a friend that, if she hadn’t been Queen,
Bushbeaters’ Ball 2022 The annual Charity Clay Shoot at Warter Priory Estate in East Yorkshire has raised an incredible £135,000 for the Game and Wildlife
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHCHHk5hNgI Here are the links: What the new PM will do for the countryside – Twitter Government consultation on firearms – Home Office NSRA opposes
youtu.be/utcky0zq10E Who is the top Sporting clay shot in Britain? James Marchington reports from Barbury Shooting School in Wiltshire, where the nation’s top clayshooters are
youtu.be/BB5kOKDjbDo Who is the top sporting clayshooter in Britain? James Marchington reports from the British Open Sporting Championship at Barbury in Wiltshire, where 1,250 clayshooters
youtu.be/GCi5JQRX0Sc by Deborah Hadfield It’s time to scrap the existing gun certificate system across England and Wales and replace it with another. That’s the conclusion
youtu.be/X93ipWbnihU UK shooting and countryside groups are joining forces to commission new research into the economic, environmental and social value of shooting. BASC, Countryside Alliance,
by Ben O’Rourke This is the story of the British relationship with pets and livestock. In June 2020, Fieldsports News visited Borth Wild Animal Kingdom
www.youtube.com/watch?v=awqTOjmHock Are there more deer than ever before? Deerstalker Tom Davies says yes, as he heads out to shoot fallow prickets and sorrels for his
Controversy over force-free approach to gundog training by Deborah Hadfield There’s a growing split at the heart of gundog training, and it centres on the
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrHNih-sctk Here are the links: BASC attacks England’s deer strategy recommendations – BASC Countryside Alliance Packham sabs complaint – Daily Mail Government crackdown on sewage
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