Sentences with phrase «of gamekeepers»

Welsh language version of Gamekeepers Role in Sustainable Countryside Management.

This resource holds Welsh language teaching notes, pupil worksheets and PowerPoint presentation on the conservation work of gamekeepers in retaining and enhancing the biodiversity of the countryside

BASC training officer, Nick Lane, said: «The demand for the courses has diminished over the last two years as the majority of gamekeepers and shoot managers have now been trained.

The department's snare report in 2012 found that 95 % of gamekeepers were aware of the Code of Practice, yet not a single fox snare operator they visited during the production of the report was fully compliant with it.

BASC representatives spoke to children and teachers at a farm run by the charity Farms for City Children about wildlife management and the role of the gamekeeper.

RADIO TIMES — Richard Madden takes on the role of gamekeeper Oliver Mellors in BBC1's lush adaptation of Lady Chatterley's Lover yesterday night.

Game is also food, and the job of the gamekeeper is central to overseeing this natural and delicious harvest of free - range meat.

In this show — split between the gallery and Edlin's booth at Frieze New York (4 - 7 May)-- the artist Summer Wheat takes inspiration from the role of the gamekeeper since Medieval times.

Not exact matches

They can turn from gamekeepers to poachers by embracing the scrutiny role of parliament through the select committee system.

Calor Gas, the UK's leading supplier of cylinder gas to the game rearing field, has agreed to sponsor BASC's Gamekeepers» Fair at Catton Park for 2009.

BASC North regional officer Gareth Dockerty said: «The film shows how upland gamekeepers and those involved in the provision of land for shooting engage with their communities to manage sensitive habitats in a sustainable way for wildlife and people.»

BASC Scotland submitted the open letter to the Minister on behalf of Scottish Gamekeepers Association, Scottish Association for Country Sports, Scottish Countryside Alliance, Association of Deer Management Groups and Scottish Land & Estates.

The group is made up of: VisitScotland, Scottish Enterprise, Highlands & Islands Enterprise, Association of Deer Management Groups, Association of Salmon Fishery Boards, British Association for Shooting and Conservation, Scottish Countryside Alliance, Scottish Estates Business Group, Scottish Gamekeepers Association and the Scottish Rural Property and Business Association.

Stewart Blair, a former head gamekeeper, will be delivering the courses initially to estates and providers within the Cairngorms National Park, basing the training at sporting locations throughout the area, before developing a greater number of training locations across other parts of Scotland

The final of the competition will be held at the BASC Gamekeepers» Fair at Catton Park in Derbyshire on 13 April.

The training is specifically aimed at gamekeepers, who will get hands - on experience as well as a good theoretical grounding on the safe handling and use of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG).

«BASC has run a number of events targeting health and safety on the shoot aimed at cutting through the red tape and helping gamekeepers, shoot captains and shoot managers to draw up their health and safety management plans.»

Gamekeepers from the south west will be competing for a place in the final of a national clay shooting competition.

Gamekeepers, shoot managers and shoot captains in the South East of England will have a chance to learn about health and safety at an event run by the UK's largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC).

Yet Johnson, a former union leader himself, has curiously decided that now is the time to rake over the coals of Labour's recent leadership contest and called for union influence over the party to be further reduced, thus proving the old adage that former poachers make worse gamekeepers.

You can't be the gamekeeper of everyone else's spending if you've been poaching from the taxpayer yourself.

A Romanian gamekeeper provides Carpathian brown bears for rich hunters to kill — a job that «combines the services of a nanny, a zoo attendant, a field naturalist, a sniper's spotter, and a pimp.»

At the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, director Malcolm Brenner, a geneticist, says he has turned «AdV from poacher into gamekeeper.»

And found this: «Injury to the ulnar collateral ligament of the metacarpophalangeal joint trips off the tongue more agreeably as gamekeeper's thumb.

The name comes from the chronic ligament damage incurred by Scottish gamekeepers in the course of killing wounded rabbits.»

The article that comes from quotes a physician named Kevin Math, that's right, Dr. Math, who explained, «The gamekeepers would grasp the hare's neck between the base of the thumb and index finger, and repetitively twist and hyperextend the neck.

Forty years ago, shooting and poisoning birds of prey was widespread, and the killing invariably blamed on old - time gamekeepers, men born and bred to view birds of prey as the enemy.

Hahaha My husband is in fact the gamekeeper here and is running a shoot this weekend, therefore my choice of outfit is heavily influenced by the shooting party.

Gamekeepers are not only responsible for management of the countryside, but also bringing us the tastiest of ingredients for our plates.

If Snowy was here in these few acres behind the line it was just a matter of walking quietly, crisscrossing it like a gamekeeper looking for a poacher.

Mastiffs were originally bred to be the gamekeepers of their owners» large English estates.

In England, bullmastiffs worked for gamekeepers, assisting them in keeping estates free of poachers.

a current shotgun or firearm certificate issued to the owner of the dog, or to the agent or employee of the owner most likely to be using the dog for work in connection with the lawful shooting of animals OR a letter from a gamekeeper, a land occupier (or his agent), a person with shooting rights, a shoot organiser, a club official, a person representing the National Working Terrier Federation, or a person engaged in lawful pest control, stating that the breeder of the dog whose tail is to be docked is known to him and that dogs bred by that breeder have been used (as the case may be) on his land, or in his shoot, or for pest control.

Hence the two breeds were crossed and eventually the gamekeepers»» Night Dog» was created with a ratio of 60 % English Mastiff and 40 % Old English Bulldog.

This combination was perfect for the gamekeeper's needs, quiet, they were capable of tracking a man, chasing the culprit and pinning them to ground until apprehension without biting.

One of the many different types of Mastiff, the Bullmastiff was developed in the UK during the 19th century by gamekeepers on large country estates to apprehend poachers.

Gamekeepers responded by breeding dogs big, swift, and brave enough to pursue and pin a man prowling the grounds in the dead of night.

It is a gundog and still used in gundog trials and by some gamekeepers, however the rise of the labrador retriever meant that the breed decreased in popularity as a gundog in the 20th century.The tight curly coat is waterproof and shakes dry quite satisfactorily - it was purposely developed for retrieving game from water.

Gamekeepers needed a dog that would help them rid the large estates and game preserves of poachers; one that could cover ground quietly and pin the trespassers without harming them.

It was the gamekeeper's dog of choice in the late 1800 ′ s in the United KIngdom because of its splendid temperament and working abilities on both land and water.

Over the next 30 years, the Duke of Newcastle's gamekeeper developed and improved the breed.

This young dog had been given to the cobbler, as payment of a debt, by the gamekeeper of a local landowner, Lord Chichester.

Some breed historians describe these dogs as the «blue collar» of retrievers, because they tended to be owned by gamekeepers and poachers, not aristocrats.

It was because of the dogs that the gamekeeper was given a two - story house to live in.

Outdoor hazards are obvious such as: volume of traffic, incidence of disease, a cat's ability to protect itself (deaf, partially sighted, frail), its danger to other cats (if it has a transmissible disease), predation upon vulnerable wildlife, any danger to humans (a British cat, Gizmo the postman hater, had to be confined for the safety of postmen and other delivery men), danger from humans (e.g. gamekeepers), spilt car antifreeze and garden chemicals.

In 2009 - 10 Hammonds was acting director (maternity cover) of The Showroom (London), producing the exhibitions The Otolith Group: Otolith 3; Ruth Buchanan: Several Attentions; Emily Wardill: Gamekeepers without Game; Estrangement and Ulises Carrión: Gossip, Scandal and Good Manners.

The MIT List Visual Arts Center is pleased to announce Emily Wardill: Gamekeepers without Game, the first U.S. museum presentation of the work of British artist Emily Wardill.

The exhibition will consist of Wardill's recent feature length film Gamekeepers without Game (2009), as well as screenings of two of the artist's 16 mm films, Ben (2007) and Sick Serena and Dregs and Wreck and Wreck (2007)...

For the gamekeeper's cottage there is a cottage in «the village or hamlet of Wirsall... in Shropshire».