British Association For Shooting And Conservation

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Please don't all the pro/anti hunt people jump on this thread

Does anyone think that the 2 aspects of this association are at odds with each other? If people want to debate hunting etc then I think we have done that debate to death, but aren't shooting and conservation at odds with each other?
 
I don't see any contradiction.

Shooting (and angling) give an economic worth to animals that could easily become extinct if reliance was exclusively placed on the income from twitchers and sightseeing tourists.

Shooting and angling,as sports, hold no appeal for me personally, but I think the benefits from these two activities are incontrovertible.
 
I think they are only contradictory if you take an overly simplistic view. Unfortunately this is what seems to happen on the majority of country issues, usually by people without a full understanding of them.
 
The last two posts are clearly correct.

However there does have to be an association for everything now, contradictory or otherwise. Apparently there is a Gay Police Association. I wonder if any Gay Police Association members are in the British Association of Shooting and Conservation ?
 
Originally posted by uncle goober@Aug 31 2007, 09:08 PM
I wonder if any Gay Police Association members are in the British Association of Shooting and Conservation ?
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Surprisingly enough, no. I have this on good authority.
 
The BASC is nothing new, it's been around for years. Conservation goes hand in hand with shooting [also angling and hunting] - if it weren't for the gamekeepers of various shoots then many areas of woodland would be an utter mess as there would be no-one to oversee them. Not to mention that the wildlife levels are kept healthy; many pheasant/partridge etc won't get shot during the season so end up breeding and living in the wild.
 
Same thing goes especially for stalking areas [shooting deer]. Shoots put a huge amount of money into local economies, esp in Scotland and other upland areas, and much of that money goes into conservation. Even in places like Norfolk, without the shoots you'd just get miles and miles of prairie veg and grain farming. Game birds need lots of tree cover, and the shoots ensure they get it. Similarly in hunting areas, coverts, stone walling etc etc are maintained largely by those involved in hunting.
 
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