On Monday 28 September at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton, Sports Minister Gerry Sutcliffe is due to speak at a fringe meeting, which is being hosted by the British Association for Shooting and Conservation...
Posted 21 Sep 2009
The shooting season has just started (1 September), but very few people in Britain will appreciate that, in addition to the 45 million partridges and pheasants mass-produced to be shot every year, almost one million...
Posted 04 Sep 2009
How does the Countryside Alliance do it? Two days before the start of the four months grouse shooting season, it has released the results of a questionnaire poll that ‘clearly shows that grouse shooting is...
Posted 11 Aug 2009
One of the Queen’s gamekeepers, Robbie Elliott, is to be prosecuted under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, after two badgers were killed in snares at the Balmoral estate. The offence carries a maximum penalty...
Posted 27 May 2009
More information about pheasant and partridge shooting
Posted 23 Dec 2008
As the ‘gamebird’ industry steps up its efforts to promote the ‘sport shooting’ of birds as a wholesome and natural means of food production, a damning new report reveals the massive squandering of resources and...
Posted 15 Dec 2008
Ultra-posh purveyors of country fare, Daylesford Organic – run by Lady Carole Bamford, the wife of eye-wateringly wealthy JCB boss, Anthony Bamford – has fallen foul of the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). The watchdog branded...
Posted 28 Nov 2008
As the ‘gamebird’ shooting lobby tries desperately to sell its ‘sport’ as a branch of the food industry, fresh images from this year’s shooting season expose the cruelty and wastefulness of this bloodsport.
Posted 21 Nov 2008
The government’s official advisory body on farmed animal welfare has today launched a devastating attack on the systems used to mass-produce pheasants and partridges for ‘sport’ shooting. The Farm Animal Welfare Council (FAWC), in its...
Posted 13 Nov 2008
A new study by the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) concludes that only 34 per cent of pheasant nests in the wild are successful. (A successful nest is considered to be one where at...
Posted 13 Nov 2008