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BASC issues warning to Minister ahead of final Grouse Bill debate

The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has issued a letter to Jim Fairlie, Scotland’s Minister for Agriculture and Connectivity, urging for further amendments to be made at the final stage of the Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill. It comes as the Bill nears the final stage of a debate on March 19… Read more »

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What are the natural capital benefits of shooting?

The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has published its inaugural assessment of the Natural Capital benefits of shooting. Natural Capital can be defined as the sum of financial and social benefits we get from our natural environment. This concept has increasingly shaped both international and national environmental policies and is at the core… Read more »

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The report says the benefits system is too complicated
Benefit system ‘deters work’

Britain’s complicated benefits system can put claimants off returning to work, a report claims. The study from three anti-poverty charities criticises “structural deficiencies” which it says are creating barriers for progress towards the government’s goals of full employment and eradicating child poverty by 2020. Community Links, the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) and the… Read more »