In ASSOCIATION with Seeland

The winner of letter of the Week will receive a new William II waistcoat from Seeland. Worth £64.99, it is available in navy, moose brown and pine green and sizes S to 5Xl. For more information visit www.seeland.com. past decade has been very saddening and had a big impact on our community. For the first time there will now be a national marketing board for game. The BGA has the backing of every major shooting organisation and it is sufficiently funded to engage food and PR professionals in a way previous game promotion schemes have not.

Crucially, however, most of the industry realises that the failure of the BGA is not an option. Without its success we seriously risk losing game shooting as we know it. This is not idle scaremongering. a glimpse at labour’s animal welfare proposals reveal this, and our links in Government have impressed upon us that without successful self-regulation we will find ourselves regulated punitively from above.

I hope that we can count on mr Blackman’s support. It is our unanimous backing within the industry that gives the BGA a very realistic chance of success.

T. Adams, managing director, British Game Alliance lead shot over wetlands does more than affect wildfowl that haven’t been killed (News, 6 June) but my concern is the fact that the RSPB claims that cats killing 55million birds annually has no population-level impact.

This is a bit of an about-turn by the RSPB. a number of years ago it ran an advertising campaign. The main image was a sporting shooter armed with a dog, shotgun and game bag. The caption listed the bag limits for all the sporting birds that could be shot during the given seasons. The tagline said: “and he ate them all!”

Next to the shooter was a picture of a domestic cat.