The RSPB's consultation on gamebird shooting and associated land management

The RSPB's consultation on its draft conservation principles for gamebird shooting and associated land management has now closed. The Countryside Alliance, along with eight other leading organisations representing shooting and land owning interests in the UK, submitted a joint response based on the GWCT's principles for game management which are based on accepted international principles that are compatible with the objectives of the major environmental treaties.

These facilitate the maximisation of the benefits to the environment and economy arising from sustainable gamebird management and allow consumptive and non-consumptive partners to work together; unlike the RSPB's draft 'principles', which go far beyond those recognised internationally. Whereas international sustainable use principles recognise the value of sustainable use, and seek to enhance it, the RSPB's draft principles are clearly intended as a tool to restrict it.

You can read the joint letter here.