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Defra’s Future of Rural England report promises to embed rural proofing across government, and names hare coursing and quad bike theft among the rural crimes it will tackle
Processing times and resourcing are for chief constables and police and crime commissioners, peers have been told, as fees rise again and shotgun certificate numbers sit at their lowest since records ...
The EFRA Committee has demanded answers from Defra on deep-peat burning licences, after its wildfire inquiry drew 190 submissions, almost 70 per cent from individual land managers
Mark Osborne of sporting agent JM Osborne reports a very welcome rise in the number of grouse counted on most moors in northern England and southern Scotland this July. Brood averages of eight and nin...
A Reform UK motion backed by Plaid Cymru and the Conservatives commits the new Welsh Government to consider targeted wildlife control, including culling, in the fight against bovine TB
Scotland’s first compulsory deer control scheme is to be lifted after Loch Choire Estate reached a voluntary agreement with NatureScot on managing its red deer
El Koudia’s finest season yet has drawn teams from eight countries into Morocco’s Jbilet hills – and only three two-days trips remain for 2026/27
Grey control volunteers are being sought as the virus returns to the stronghold where the 2008 outbreak cut red squirrel numbers by 80 per cent
BASC wrote to the new Defra Secretary of State on her first full day, pressing for an early meeting on the gamebird licensing uncertainty left by Natural England
A head gamekeeper has urged farmers, estates and conservationists to work together and face up to predator control if the curlew is to be saved
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