Sentences with word «wildfowl»

I am extremely pleased and honoured to be offered the role of Wildfowling Officer.

Paul Williamson, who has had sixteen years experience as a rural and general practice chartered surveyor, will initially work closely with wildfowling clubs to identify opportunities for purchase and lease of land for shooting.

BASC will strongly object to any further restrictions being placed on wildfowling on a Devon estuary

He said: «Like many of my fellow wildfowlers, I am passionate about preserving our way of life and was delighted to have be appointed BASC wildfowling officer.

AUTHOR Louise Gray has spoken about the «noble pursuit» of wildfowling in a new BASC film about food's connection with the environment.

«The UK has also acted to protect vulnerable species by legislating on the use of lead shot for wildfowl and over wetlands.

The «plastic pick» idea was first put to Natural England by John Watson, a member of the Lindisfarne Wildfowling Management group, and within just a few short weeks, more than 50 wildfowlers, Young Shots and Newton Rigg college students were combing the reserve to gather plastic waste.

BASC chairman Peter Glenser has praised the work of those involved in the Lindisfarne wildfowling scheme after it landed bronze in the prestigious 2017 Purdey Awards for Game and Conservation at a ceremony in London last night

David Muldoon is chairman of Bridgwater Bay Wildfowlers, a member of Dorset Wildfowlers and a member of BASC's Wildfowling Liaison Committee.

While the European delegates were at Marford Mill they were given the opportunity to try wildfowling as guests of the Dee Wildfowlers and Wetlands Management Club.

David will also be making regular contact with wildfowling joint councils, statutory agencies, public bodies and other stakeholders across the UK.»

BASC is delighted to announce that the Lindisfarne wildfowling scheme has been shortlisted for the 2017 Purdey Awards for Game and Conservation.

If you would like to try wildfowling for the first time, or in a new area, then the booklet will give you the necessary information including contact details for individual representatives of the relevant organisations.

This, in turn, provides evidence for the on - going sustainable management of wildfowling at Lindisfarne NNR.

It would also be wonderful to think other wildfowling clubs across the country could follow this example.

New information about wildfowling clubs and shooting opportunities is available in an updated publication from the UK's largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC).

The first weekend after the coastal season is over could provide the perfect opportunity for a huge annual wildfowling plastic pick across the country.»

The booklet provides a basic introduction to the sport and information on where you can obtain wildfowling permits throughout the UK.

BASC has appointed a new wildfowling officer.

«I thought wildfowling sounded interesting because I knew of amazing conservationists, like Sir Peter Scott, who were great «fowlers,» she said.

None of the guests had shot wildfowl in this way before and it was hugely appreciated, especially by Gert Michiels from the Flemish Hunting Association who shot is first - ever duck under the supervision of an experienced Dee wildfowler.

Open seasons for shooting ducks and other wildfowl involve much suffering, some of it in lingering death.

The Devon Wildfowling and Conservation Association will host a game evening today (November 17th) at The Globe Hotel, Fore Street, Topsham, Devon.

Bill Harriman, BASC's director of firearms, said: «We bought it because we are trying to preserve wildfowling and English shooting heritage and I think it's important to have a gun that we know has a very strong association with our founder.

BASC chairman Peter Glenser said: «We are absolutely delighted to have acquired this piece of wildfowling history with such a strong link to our founder.

The four BASC - affiliated wildfowling clubs, who shoot over the Dyfi estuary, have negotiated a sub-lease of the Crown Estates sporting rights from the Countryside Council for Wales.

This covers matters of importance to shooting and to conservationists such as delivery of the Government's Biodiversity 2020 programme, coastal access, wildfowling consents and future reviews of general licences which allow the necessary control of certain birds.

John Dryden, a member of BASC Council and chairman of the association's wildfowling liaison committee, said: «I am delighted with David's appointment, the result of a closely fought contest between a high level of excellent candidates.

Mark first became interested in wildfowling whilst undertaking voluntary conservation work on the North Kent Marshes, while studying for an MSc in Environmental Science at the University of Kent.

From Cornwall to Cromarty, there are 36 sites where wildfowling is available from BASC affiliated clubs, local authorities and other organisations.

Nothing evokes the sense of passion and excitement that wildfowling does.

I am thrilled to be part of a team which is taking the aims and objectives of wildfowling into the 21st Century and I am very much looking forward to meeting my fellow wildfowlers around the country.»

BASC Northern Ireland is working with Countryside Alliance Ireland and has consulted wildfowling clubs and MLAs before responding to the Environment Committee's call for evidence on the Marine Bill.

He joined the Kent Wildfowling and Conservation Association in the late 1990's and remained an active member until 2005 when he moved to Cheshire.

The awards application was based on the valuable data provided by the wildfowlers and the warden and how that becomes part of the annual wildfowling report produced by BASC.

«It's a fine example of how sustainable wildfowling can exist on protected sites with cooperation.

Glynn Cook, director of BASC Wales, said: «Until now wildfowling on the Dyfi, although regulated, was not protected by any formal agreement.

Wildfowling continued on the estuary but only on a «grace and favour» status with no established long term security for the wildfowlers and their sport, although it was now regulated through the Dyfi Wildfowl Management Advisory Panel.

BASC is disappointed to announce that the 2018 Wildfowling Conference, due to be held this Saturday (March 3) at the Ramada Hotel, Sutton Coldfield, has been cancelled due to adverse weather conditions.

«The close season allows us time to take part in pigeon shooting and deer stalking and foreshore wildfowling will continue until 20th February.

This decision will not affect wildfowling that is legally undertaken on the foreshore on Findhorn Bay LNR or anywhere else in Scotland.

Essex officers and staff were shown around Marford Mill before receiving presentations from a number of BASC's specialist departments, including wildfowling and game and deer management.

Louise accepted BASC's invitation to a flight on The Wash, hosted by Fenland Wildfowlers Association, after being unable to add wildfowling as a chapter in her book.

The film shows Louise — whose book The Ethical Carnivore detailed two years of eating only the meat she killed herself — shooting a wigeon on her first ever wildfowling trip.

«Wildfowling struck me as an interesting way to get my own meat.

But I felt wildfowling was much harder work.

N9 seems to have come from a wild bird, probably around Korea somewhere, although there's evidence for rare N9s in other birds in Mongolia and Siberia, where these migratory wildfowl tend to congregate.