The “Glorious twelfth” kicked off the gamebird shooting season in the UK, with game shoots readying themselves for the season ahead, opening with red ...

Three years into a five-year pledge to completely phase out lead shot in UK game hunting, a study finds that 94% of pheasants on sale for human consumption were killed using lead. Three years into a ...

Stricter rules on releasing millions of gamebirds into the Welsh countryside are needed urgently over fears for native ...

Natural Resources Wales (NRW) provided clear advice to Welsh Government in October 2023, but plans for licensing have been ...

Photographically it’s been a year of shooting new sports. Mainly Olympic and Paralympic sports but this past week it’s been country sport in the form of pheasant shooting. It’s funny but it’s only now ...

Deep-pocketed Americans are swarming the bucolic Cotswolds outside London to live like lords, renting estates for pheasant shooting weekends for an eye-popping $250,000. “Americans will pay up to $250 ...

MANY people are rightly outraged over the killing of animals for ‘sport’. However, readers may not know that 50 million pheasants and partridges are purpose-bred each year for ‘sport’ shooting in the ...