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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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Arab television station al-Jazeera has aired an audio tape claiming to feature deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. On the tape the purported voice of the former dictator says that he is alive and living ‘among Iraqis’. He adds: ‘I tell you that I miss you, miss you, oh beloved people, even though I am among… Read more »
Foreign Office Minister Baroness Symons has voiced “serious reservations” about the prospect of British detainees at Guantanamo Bay being tried by US military tribunals. Two Brits are among six individuals facing trial after President Bush last night authorised the first prosecutions of terror suspects being held at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba…. Read more »
