Send one email to save game shooting
The government is reviewing every aspect of game shooting in England. Conor O’Gorman provides an update and urges people to email Defra by 1 November.
The Spectator: Natural England shouldn’t be above the law
To restore nature and rebuild rural trust, the government must ensure that regulators don’t misuse their powers, says BASC via an article in The Spectator this week.
Following a front page article in The Telegraph last week, backed up by an interview on GB News and a piece in LabourList – read this here – coverage of BASC’s win in the High Court against Natural England has continued to flow. Our latest write up of the story features in The Spectator this week.
The piece, which you can read below, discusses the impact of this landmark judgment, with the consequences likely to reverberate far outside of the shooting sector.
Rebuilding the trust of rural communities will not be an easy task for the government, but we hope that this set of events will act as a catalyst for a reset on how regulators operate in the countryside.
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Rural voices must be heard, BASC tells Liberal Democrats
BASC highlighted the importance of shooting to rural communities and the need for their voices to be heard at the Liberal Democrat Party Conference this week.
43 forces, one failing system: The good and the bad of the HMICFRS report
Bill Harriman discusses the HMICFRS’ call for a single firearms licensing authority and why other recommendations in its report are being firmly rejected.