BASC has been working with Blackpool Aspire Academy to inspire students to get involved in practical conservation projects at school.
BASC has joined forces with the Angling Trust to lobby on the upcoming Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill, highlighting the potential impact the law could have on sustainable shooting and angling.
BASC and the British Deer Society have launched a campaign on the importance of giving pregnant deer and their newborns space at this time of year.
BASC’s campaign for Invasive Species Week has captured the imagination of the press, putting squirrel and muntjac on the dinner menu.
The Government has announced an interim licensing scheme for gamebird release on and within 500 metres of European Protected Sites.
Martin Parker, former chief scientist at the National Ballistics Intelligence Service, has been appointed as BASC’s new head of firearms.
BASC has pledged to work with the newly-elected Scottish Government to ensure shooting’s interests continue to be fully represented in Holyrood.
BASC has rejected proposals by the UK Woodland Assurance Standard to ban the use of lead ammunition under its banner by 2023.
Following intervention from BASC, Defra has included scientific research as a licensable aspect of the new burning regulations in England.
The RSPB have used the recent wildfire in Northern Ireland’s Mourne mountains as a platform to call for a ban on controlled burning.
