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Whitefronts stay on the quarry list
BASC welcomes the voluntary moratorium to protect whitefronts
Welsh natural resources’ minister Alun Davies has announced that there will continue to be a voluntary moratorium on the shooting of Greenland white-fronted geese, rather than the species being removed from the quarry list.
BASC welcomed the decision, and has said that stakeholders’ engagement is key to protecting the birds.
The rest of this article appears in the 7th August issue of Shooting Times.
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