BASC's Conor O'Gorman on why your experience of game shooting is valid evidence for the Defra call for evidence, which closes on 1 November.

Polling for Ground Cry finds 60% want ground-nesting birds saved, but only 25% recognise the threat from ravens and 24% from carrion crows.

Tom Peachey becomes Eat Wild managing director in November, with three seasons to build a mass market for game meat before the 2029 lead ban.

BASC’s Peter Clark on the NatureScot general licence review: no blanket annual returns, two-year licences, and clarity on the 500m protected-site buffer.

The Moorland Association has published two years of letters to the NWCU over hen harrier hotspots; a meeting with the NPCC lead is offered for November.

Jean-Paul Gaudin on why grouse shooting is the holy grail of the sporting calendar, and on the moorland management that makes it possible.

A record 13 hen harrier chicks fledged at RSPB Geltsdale in Cumbria in 2026, and the RSPB has used the result to renew its ...

Sue Knight on the gamekeeper’s wife: running the beating line, rearing children and gamebirds alike, and the isolation nobody talks about.

Tim Weston of the NGO on the abuse that followed a Glorious Twelfth post, the Online Safety Act 2023 and why Facebook is not ...

Defra is giving the National Wildlife Crime Unit £530,000 to tackle hare coursing in 2026/27, yet admits it cannot measure a crime that is not notifiable.

The Country Food Trust has tripled its game chiller network to six and is urging shoots and Guns to make sure every bird shot ...

Jeremy Hobson on the invasive species running through the British countryside, from mink to grey squirrels, and on which reintroductions he welcomes.