How replicas will stymie Starmer’s trophy import ban
25 February 2026
The SCI Convention 2026 in Nashville, Tennessee, shows off all that’s best and biggest in hunting, sporting guns and taxidermy. A major theme this year
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
The SCI Convention 2026 in Nashville, Tennessee, shows off all that’s best and biggest in hunting, sporting guns and taxidermy. A major theme this year
Here are the links: New deer night-shooting general licence – Gov.uk Back off hunting, Labour lords urge Starmer – FarmingUK.com Court orders huntsman’s horn flattened
It wasn’t so much a debate, more a pile-on. In Westminster Hall on Monday 23rd February 2026, 24 MPs from across the political spectrum spoke
Here are the links: Shooting community gears up for Westminster debate – Parliament.uk, Countryside Alliance and BASC Preserve grouseshooting’s ‘intangible culture’ – OurUplandLivingHeritage.com Town councillor slams
When Morgan Myers decided to help a sick young badger he found close to his home, he had no idea it would lead to a
In the first case of its kind, former gamekeeper Racster Dingwall pleaded guilty at York Magistrates Court to conspiring to commit wildlife crime. The RSPB
Here are the links: ‘Missing’ hen harrier died naturally – Facebook Eat Game Awards finalists – BASC BBC backs venison – BBC Packham attacks hunting
Here are the links: MPs to debate firearms licensing – MP’s contact details Members.parliament.uk – and show them this petition Petition.parliament.uk Scotland’s Environment Bill watered down
When Powys police started asking shooters to provide drug tests as part of their shotgun and firearms certificate applications, it sent shockwaves through the world
www.youtube.com/watch?v=22zvtFZrZAI Here are the links: Trophy ban ‘would harm Africa’s animals and villagers’ – Daily Mail Making money out of venison – TheBittescombeInn.com and FieldsportsChannel.tv/high-fiving-foxshooters
Here are the links: Scotland plans to hammer sporting estates – BASC Mass poaching bust on the Fens – YouTube RSPB ‘bird crime’ reports rubbished
The US government has written to the UK’s environment department DEFRA to ask it not to ban trophy imports. A letter from Doug Burgum, US