The executive chairman of the Countryside Alliance has resigned from the Lead Ammunition Group
countryside
PM backs shooting
The prime minister, David Cameron, has assured shooters of his party’s support for the shooting sports
Venison for the masses: newly-funded supply chain in East of England
The Forestry Commission has established The Wild Venison Project to tackle growing deer population; harvests provide economic boost and tasty alternative.
Tagged with: 2014, countryside, deer, deer management, deer population, East of England, forest welfare, funding, landowners, local communities, management, The Forestry Commission, The Wild Venison Project, uk, venison
Posted in News
Posted in News
Deer detrimental to natural forest development
Deer cause turmoil for woodland symbiosis by preventing forests from establishing, claims recent study.
Tagged with: 2014, Antonio DiTommaso, Anurag Agrawal, cornell university, countryside, deer, deer habitat, environment, forest development, forest welfare, ithaca NY, native flora, plos one, seed banks, study, usa, white-tailed deer
Posted in News
Posted in News
Rural crime network launched
Sporting organisations have teamed up to open a network to help police tackle rural crime.
CA chair speaks out on ‘sinister and nasty’ RSPCA
Countryside Alliance chairman Barney White Spunner, in a front-page newspaper interview, has criticised the RSPCA for its recent focus on litigation over animal welfare
Mass deer cull ‘necessary’
Around 50% of Britain’s deer population needs to be culled each year to ‘protect the countryside’, according to a study published in the Journal of Wildlife Management.
Rights and wrongs
Red tape around public footpaths is to be slashed, Defra says, making it both easier to declare new public rights of way and to declare old routes defunct.
CA chairman in media campaign
Sir Barney White-Spunner, executive chairman of the Countryside Alliance, has urged children to ditch their laptops and try country sports like shooting and fishing.
Hunt ban ‘ineffective in Midlands’
Figures obtained by the BBC through a Freedom of Information request indicate that there has only been one prosecution under the Hunting Act in the Midlands since the Act came into force in February 2005.
