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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 »
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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United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called on all the parties involved in the current violent clashes in Liberia to cease hostilities and ensure that civilians are not targeted. Fighting in the country’s capital Monrovia has intensified over the last few days as rebels close in on the city centre in their campaign against President… Read more »
Spin supremo, Alastair Campbell, the PM’s director of communications, and the PM himself have both refused to give evidence to an influential select committee on whether the government deliberately ‘sexed up’ intelligence reports on Iraq’s capacity to launch WMD strikes within 45 minutes, prior to the US-led war against Saddam Hussein’s regime. Both will decline… Read more »
