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The Women’s Shooting Network (WSN) is thrilled to announce the relaunch of The Members’ Club, a new membership portal offering an enhanced experience for women in the shooting community. This revitalised platform introduces a range of new features and benefits, including a premium membership package in partnership with Time Well Spent Group. The newly redesigned…

From 25 November it will be an offence to set a snare in Scotland for the purpose of killing or restraining a wild animal.  Jim Fairlie, Minister for Agriculture and Connectivity, notified Scottish parliament of the date for the ban on snares in response to a question from Green MSP Ariane Burgess.  The ban will…

The Scottish Gamekeepers Association (SGA) has told NatureScot that the environmental benefit licences are “out of reach” for those who need them.  NatureScot recently asked stakeholders to express their views regarding the efficacy of the licensing processes for the use of trained dogs in fox population control.  Since the Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Act 2023…

Chris Castle, corporate manager at Northolt shooting club AC Sporting Targets, has raised more than £10,000 for Parkinson’s UK by walking Hadrian’s Wall in a full suit of Roman centurion armour.  Chris completed the 84-mile route between 22 and 27 September, walking around eight hours per day in 35kg of armour. “My mother was sadly…

A fatal accident inquiry (FAI) is to be held following the death of a gamekeeper in 2022. Matthew Burden died after an all-terrain vehicle accident on the Tarland to Tillypronie Road in Aberdeenshire on 29 January 2022. The 36-year-old was employed as a gamekeeper by East Tillypronie Sporting.  The process to hold an FAI is…

Shadow Environment Secretary Steve Barclay has promoted shooting as part of Britain’s rural identity and claims it offers “so much more” than economic and conservation benefits.  Speaking at the BASC and Angling Trust reception following the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham, Mr Barclay also spoke of the importance of rural voice being heard by the…

Up to 5,000 farmed salmon may have escaped from a site in County Antrim, posing a threat to the long-term health of Ireland’s wild salmon population.  A spokesman for the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) said “a rip in the net of a farmed salmon cage” was found at the Glenarm site…

The UK has become the first nation to map and estimate the volume of carbon stored in its seabed habitats. The Blue Carbon Mapping Project suggests that 244 million tonnes of organic carbon are stored in the top 10cm of the UK’s seabeds and coastal habitats like saltmarshes and seagrass beds.  It’s estimated that every…

Management boards that oversee England’s 10 national parks are accused of having too many members and lacking in conservational expertise. Furthermore, 30% of England’s national park boards include no conservation experts at all.  A report by the Guardian found the number of board members for each park varies between 15 and 30 people. A total…

Last year “debanking” was added as a noun to the Collins English Dictionary, defined as “the act of depriving a person of banking facilities”. That was when debanking was frequently in the news and I was receiving weekly updates from shooting clubs and businesses that had been refused new accounts or had existing accounts closed. …