Have your say
There is just under five weeks left for you to have your say in the Aim to Sustain coalition to help protect the future of shooting.
The initiative brings nine rural organisations together under the umbrella of Aim to Sustain.
The idea of the partnership is to use the expertise of the organisations to promote sustainable game shooting and communicate best practice to policymakers and better inform the wider public.
A 10-week ‘have your say’ consultation was launched along with the initiative at the Game Fair in July. This consultation is now halfway through and closes at 10am on Monday, 11 October. The combined memberships of the organisations, which include BASC, the Countryside Alliance, the National Gamekeepers’ Organisation, the British Game Alliance and the Moorland Association, have been urged to make their voices heard and participate in a survey. Aim to Sustain will provide a unified voice of the combined memberships but will not have a membership in its own right.
Tim Bonner, the chief executive of the Countryside Alliance, said he was confident that by coming together the organisations would be able to “promote high standards, robust science and deliver the strongest promotion of sustainable game shooting”.
Amanda Anderson, director of the Moorland Association, said: “Modern game management plays a huge part in making the countryside a better place for everybody. We help tackle climate change, deliver biodiversity gain and conserve wildlife in a sustainable way. That’s well worth shouting from the rooftops.”