12/12/2022

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Aimtosustain

Survey closes 28th February

Scotland is on the cusp of making shooting grouse illegal and introducing a licensing regime citing poor and illegal practice; The Welsh Government has stated it is anti-shooting and set to ban snares and England is teetering on the brink of banning released game birds in protected areas. Labour will review grouse shooting when it next gets in to power due to perceived ‘substantial environmental damage.’

Aim to Sustain believes that effective self-regulation – not bureaucratic legislation - across the sector is the best way of safeguarding the future of sustainable game management and shooting.

Please help us help you.

Aim to Sustain is a partnership of 8 rural organisations, with GWCT as our scientific advisor, working to promote and protect game shooting and preserve associated wildlife habitats in the UK. We support sustainable and responsible shooting, environmental balance, animal welfare, local communities, and the rural way of life.

Scientific research by the GWCT shows than when shoots follow best practice guidelines significant biodiversity benefits are delivered. The GWCT, as scientific advisor to Aim to Sustain, are undertaking a survey to understand how the providers and participants in game shooting view self-regulation and how it could work best across the sector.

There are three short surveys which will take only 5 minutes:

Please complete the survey most relevant to your situation or more than one if you are both participant and provider. We would be grateful if you would complete the survey by 28th February 2023.

Comments

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at 13:38 on 21/02/2023 by Peter Anthony Simpson

Sadly folks are useing this as way to extract money out of gamefarms .While were on how about you start doing research on gamebird diseases microplasma good one to start on the treatments on offer are very very costly and don,t work .Kflor and karridox stops it this came from another gamefarmer not a vet.

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at 11:27 on 21/02/2023 by Iain Mitchell

It is quite clear from experience in England, Scotland and (especially) Wales that, when game-keeping stops on a particular area, there is an inevitable decline both in the target species and in other species who may be vulnerable to predation and/or habitat loss. Any action which will tend to disincentivise or reduce game-keeping activity will therefore have a substantial environmental cost Grouse are an iconic species in Scotland and indeed other parts of the UK and the loss of that species in an area is a hugely sad diminution to its environment

Game shooting

at 18:41 on 10/01/2023 by JohnJones-Perrott

It seems the benefits for employment, social cohesion, conservation benefits, and diversification in unprecedented times of uncertainty are being ignored to pander to a small and vociferous minority, regardless of any benefits in the long run!

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