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UPDATED 14 September: Stormont's own research service has put the two-dog limit, the missing licensing route and the penalties in front of MLAs, and Countryside Alliance Ireland says the questions mat...
Targeted members have suffered 26 incidents each on average in five years, and the association says every one must be reported
The authority behind Scotland's muirburn licences, general licences and deer management would disappear into a single super-agency, with a consultation expected this autumn
BASC's head of social science says 31 of the 106 questions in Defra's call for evidence on gamebird release carry 47 methodological biases between them, and urges shoots to answer in force before 1 No...
The Welsh Government has put dates to its proposed close season, matching Scotland's, ahead of a four-week consultation opening on 21 September
Uncontrolled dogs, e-bikes and dawn campers are wrecking stalks and pushing deer into the woods, and the SGA wants the 2003 access law reviewed
Fencing and predator control are saving nests but not chicks, and the report warns that losing grouse-moor management would halve population growth
From Tuesday it will be an offence to burn anywhere in Scotland without a NatureScot licence, as the country's first licensed muirburn season opens
The Alliance counts at least 27 measures, from shotgun ownership restrictions to the family farm tax, as direct threats to rural communities
Deer managers and NatureScot are pointing walkers to the 'Heading for the Scottish Hills' service as culls come under growing pressure to deliver national targets
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