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Home » Conservation in Action » Green shoots mapping
The Green Shoots Mapping and bag recording website has been created by BASC to provide both an excellent online mapping, wildlife recording and shooting diary and a simple way to enable members to assist us to protect and promote shooting and conservation.
Using Green Shoots Mapping helps provide evidence to show government, the media and the public that shooting makes a huge contribution to conservation and a healthy environment because we use that information to:
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BASC commissioned Erne Environmental to manage a network of volunteers to provide sufficient data to the National Breeding Woodcock Survey in 2023.
Data shows a 46 per cent decline in breeding curlew in the UK between 1994 and 2010, with a more than 50 per cent decline in Wales and Scotland.