BASC has backed the Home Office’s response to a private member’s bill regarding pump-action shotguns.
Political affairs
BASC believes that sustainable shooting will benefit from a review of EU legislation through the ‘Brexit Freedoms’ Bill.
What does the most recent parliamentary stage of the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill mean for sustainable shooting?
Environment Secretary George Eustice MP has highlighted the conservation credentials of shooting during the Conservative Conference in Manchester.
BASC has urged the Labour Party to listen to rural voters during its reception at the Labour Party conference in Brighton this weekend.
BASC opposes a proposal to ban snares in Wales and is calling on the Welsh Government to justify the plans by producing scientific evidence.
Read our statement following a response for the Welsh Minister for Economy after shooting businesses in Wales were excluded from Covid funding.
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’s Conor O’Gorman says a public attitudes survey on the UK fur trade risks government policy decisions being based on emotion rather than evidence.
Read Dr Conor O’Gorman’s blog on the role sustainable shooting has to play in the government’s ambitious plans for nature recovery in England.
