BASC introduction to wildfowling workshops

[Conor O'Gorman]

More than 40 Natural England (NE) staff have attended three BASC wildfowling workshops held at Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) reserves since the beginning of the year. 

The Introduction to Wildfowling workshops, which have also attracted members of local fowling clubs and a Crown Estate representative, have sought to improve NE staff’s overall knowledge and understanding of wildfowling and to help them make more informed and pragmatic decisions when consenting to the activity on the European protected sites network. 

The workshops were held in Lancashire, the WWT’s head office in Gloucestershire and Norfolk. During the workshops, Sarah Pinnell, BASC’s head of land management and consenting, explained the consenting process and how the association works with wildfowling clubs. James Green, BASC’s head of wildfowl and wetlands, covered the law, best practice, equipment and quarry identification. 

Wildfowling clubs — including Preston & District Wildfowlers Association, Lytham & District Wildfowlers Association, Gloucestershire Wildfowlers & Conservation Association, Fenland Wildfowlers Association, and Ely & District Wildfowlers Association — also attended the workshops and used short presentations to showcase their history and conservation efforts to assembled NE staff. 

https://www.shootinguk.co.uk/news/our-wildfowl-will-be-better-for-ne-learning-147982/

 

[fandango]

Well done, hope they learned something and gave them a better overview of what wildfowling really is all about.

[nic]

they need educating... the muppet who did our last consents asked 'at what point do you send the dogs in to send the ducks up?'  luckily she has now moved on