Animal welfare consultant Jim Barrington goes on a tour of hare poaching victims in the Eastern Counties of England. With poachers damaging crops and farm equipment, it is up to gamekeepers to defend the land. Tony Blair’s 2004 ban on coursing was meant to have stopped this. Jim meets gamekeepers Geoff Garrod and Ed Coles and hears first hand how Blair’s ban has failed.
Click here for Ed Coles’ petition to increase poaching sentences
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.