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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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Feature: The race to reform

Public confidence in parliament and politics has fallen off a cliff. Everyone in Westminster – from the prime minister downwards – has bright ideas about what to do next. The three-week maelstrom over expenses provided the sense of crisis needed to make, for the first time in a long time, real change possible. The pervading… Read more »

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Conservatives scrap council’s ‘Labour’ rose logo

Conservatives scrap council’s ‘Labour’ rose logo Newly victorious Conservatives at Lancashire county council have decided to scrap the council’s Labour-like rose logo in their first act since the local elections. The rose logo, which resembles Labour’s rose, was originally designed to replace the traditional Lancashire Tudor rose. Outgoing Labour leader Hazel Harding said the move… Read more »