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Pheasant

BASC has written to the Defra Minister regarding its failure to provide clear policy on GL43.

Women shooter holding a shotgun whilst shells eject from it

BASC’s inaugural Best In The Field Clay Shoot is a competition with a difference, with targets set to replicate live quarry shooting.

A red-legged partridge

Read our update and response to the removal of GL43 by Defra, which covers the release of gamebirds on or within 500m of protected sites.

A rat

You can be in with the chance of winning £250 in cash by answering questions about your approach to controlling rats.

A beater

BASC is backing calls by a group of MPs for “urgent and meaningful” government action on rural mental health in England.

The Yorkshire Post Rural Awards

BASC has announced it’s headline sponsorship of this year’s Yorkshire Post Rural Awards, which take place in Harrogate on 28 September 2023.

A red grouse

A Scottish government committee has u-turned on its decision to exclude responses from outside Scotland after intervention from BASC.

A curlew

Read our letter to Lesley Griffiths MS, Minister for Rural Affairs, regarding the use of modern humane cable restraints to protect ground-nesting birds.

Powys residents at the meeting

More than a 100 gamekeepers, local residents and business owners attended the Act Now campaign event in Llangedwyn.

Marford mill

Two new members of BASC Council were elected at the association’s AGM on Saturday 20 May.