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Wetland

Conservation in action newsletter – Autumn/Winter 2025

28 November 2025

Read our latest update on BASC conservation projects, including how you, your shoot or club can get involved.

Wigeon in flight

Conservation in action newsletter – May 2025

2 July 2025

Read our latest update on BASC conservation projects, including how you, your shoot or club can get involved.

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Conservation in action newsletter – February 2025

7 February 2025

Read our latest update on BASC conservation projects, including how you, your shoot or club can get involved.

Northern Pintail

Conservation in action – winter 2024/25

4 November 2024

Read our latest update on BASC conservation projects, including how you, your shoot or club can get involved.

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Conservation in action – Summer 2024

20 June 2024

Read our summer update on BASC conservation projects, including how you can get involved.

Wigeon

Conservation in action – Winter 2024

9 February 2024

Read our winter update on BASC conservation projects, including how you can get involved.

Conservation in action

Conservation in action – autumn 2023

18 October 2023

Read our autumn update on BASC conservation projects, including how you can get involved.

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Woodcock

Learning more about breeding woodcock populations in Northern Ireland

BASC commissioned Erne Environmental to manage a network of volunteers to provide sufficient data to the National Breeding Woodcock Survey in 2023.

yellowhammer in hedge

Shooting and national nature recovery goals

Read BASC’s whitepaper – ‘Shooting and national nature recovery goals’ – to find out how the shooting sector is meeting nature recovery targets and proposes to enhance its contribution.

Rice breast disease monitoring

As most members shoot with the intention of eating what they shoot, it is crucial to know how to spot the signs of rice breast.

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