News Desk

Ministers have declined to act on the welfare commission’s call to outlaw sales, nearly four years after it was made and two years after use was banned

20 August 2026

First split of grant and renewal figures shows first-time applicants wait far longer than the headline rates suggest

20 August 2026

Radio-tagged hens will be followed from nest to fledging across England and Scotland to establish why breeding success is failing on some moors

19 August 2026

Trustees visited Monkwood, near Chesterfield, to see how a grant-funded ecological baseline is shaping habitat work across the 270-acre shoot

19 August 2026

BASC coaches introduced 4,186 Scouts and Guides aged 10 to 17 to clay shooting over six days at the Poacher 2026 International Jamboree in Lincolnshire

17 August 2026

New NPCC data shows service standards slipping again as temporary permits surge, and the BSSC warns licensing departments are under stress

17 August 2026

Sector use is down 48 per cent since 2016 but rose again in 2024, and the GWCT says the gains left are in stocking density, habitat and pen infrastructure

16 August 2026

Shoots, wildfowling clubs and land managers on designated ground must now apply through the online service, BASC has told members

14 August 2026

The association says Britain has able fire crews but no one in charge of the whole fire chain, and points to Portugal's AGIF as the model

14 August 2026

Natural England now publicly accepts that reducing moorland fuel loads is essential, says the MA, but asks why prescribed burning is still missing

12 August 2026