You have just two days to add your voice to those of what I expect to be thousands and thousands of others in responding to an EU consultation on lead. I’ve responded in some detail on some aspects but you could send in a quick few words fairly easily. I say fairly easily because…
Category: Lead
More sense from Forest Enterprise England
Following on from yesterday lunchtime’s blog I have received the following information from Forest Enterprise England. These are the letters sent by FEE’s Chief Executive to BASC and which were mentioned in the previous correspondence. they date from 2015 but they are nonetheless interesting. What do we learn from this? We learn that BASC…
Forest Enterprise and non-toxic ammunition
Natural England could learn a few lessons from the Forest Enterprise. I asked Forest Enterprise England for some information on correspondence between themselves and Defra on 21 November and received a reply on 29 November with no fuss at all. Thank you FC! You’ll notice that the email below has the subject line ‘Mark Avery’s…
Home-Start – have you done due diligence on game meat?
The Grampian Moorland Group is supplying game to local branches of the charity Home-Start. Home-Start is a ‘Family support charity, supporting families with a child under five, that helps parents build better lives for their children.‘. This may be happening elsewhere in the country too, for all I know. And for all I know great…
It sure has…
A recent article in Shooting UK asks ‘Has commercial driven shooting reached a watershed?’ – it sure has! It’s an interesting read, it’s always interesting to see what others think about things that interest you, but my take would be a little different than the author’s. First, it’s a bit surprising that the author can’t bring…