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With just over a week to go until this year’s Game Fair, check out our top 10 must-visit stands and activities across the weekend.

Let’s Learn Moor 2021 is off and running, with day one seeing school children visiting the North York Moors, Nidderdale and the North Pennines.

Applications are now open for budding young writers, photographers and film-makers to be part of BASC’s Young Shots Journalists 2022.

BASC is committed to seeing tougher penalties imposed under the Government’s new Animal Welfare Bill for those found guilty of gamebird worrying.

This year’s Let’s Learn Moor starts on Monday 5 July, running across nine venues and welcoming more than 2,000 primary school children throughout the week.

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Read our statement following a response for the Welsh Minister for Economy after shooting businesses in Wales were excluded from Covid funding.

This year’s WHT stamp features artwork by Simon Turvey of two hen harriers flying over the Swinton Estate in North Yorkshire. All proceeds from sales of the stamp will go towards hen harrier conservation.

A new survey by the Lowland Deer Network Scotland, supported by BASC, has revealed the stark impact of the pandemic on deer culls in Scotland.

A petition to ban driven grouse shooting has been rejected by MPs during a Westminster Hall debate.

BASC has launched a GSC1 course aimed at the novice shot to improve success in the field and provide an accessible route into game shooting.