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BASC welcomes significant improvement on GL43

BASC has welcomed the announcement by the Secretary of State for Defra of a new general licence (GL45) for the release of game birds (pheasant and red legged partridges) on or near certain Special Protection Areas (SPAs) in England. After the chaos of last year’s announcement at short notice, BASC has achieved significant improvements to… Read more »

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BASC and Natural England meet to talk wildfowling

BASC has recently organised three Introduction to Wildfowling workshops for Natural England (NE) staff. The events were aimed at equipping NE staff with the knowledge and understanding of wildfowling which would ultimately help them make informed, pragmatic consenting decisions on protected and designated sites. More than 40 NE staff, as well as members of local… Read more »

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‘Votes-Weighted PR’ can win the argument for electoral reform — and heal our democracy

Democracy is in retreat globally, hastened by multiple dysfunctions. To reduce the UK’s own democratic deficit, support is growing for some kind of proportional representation (PR). And, still, key Labour politicians remain unconvinced.  But the argument can be tipped towards PR by fixing easy-to-attack flaws in current models — including complexity, disproportionality, too many wasted… Read more »

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Greg Clark: ‘How life-saving, bacteria-killing viruses can help combat antibiotic resistance’

The growing resistance of bacteria to antibiotics threatens, according to the World Health Organisation, sending modern medicine back decades to an era “when even routine surgeries were hazardous”. But a recent inquiry by the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee, which I chair, has heard compelling evidence of a medical treatment that can evade anti-microbial resistance…. Read more »