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"Imagine you could wave a magic wand and banish any non-native species just like that. Woods would echo with the night time serenade of the nightingale again, from an understorey of thick scrub no longer harmed by the depredations of muntjac. Our rivers could have our native white-clawed crayfish restored to them without the threat of disease caught from invading American signal crayfish." - Jamie Blackett 'Magic Wand: Restoring Nature by Banishing Invasive Species' read or listen on #Scribehound https://lnkd.in/eWuzUS94

"When a mink flushes, he blows a double blast on his horn then out comes the gun and invariably there is a bang and a dead mink. It is the most efficient way of dealing death to mink. Our local pack is the Eastern Counties Mink Hunt, and they still hunt and they still kill their quarry, yet they do so completely within the confines of that bloody daft Act from 2004." Richard Negus writes about a day out with the Eastern Counties Mink Hunt on #Scribehound

'The Glorious Twelfth; the new season is here' "Looking ahead to the new grouse season, I think about my own birds in Galloway and the national picture at a time of great change and upheaval in Scotland." - Patrick Laurie writes on #Scribehound Read more - https://lnkd.in/egzrHPc7

What is the best job in the world? For Charlie Flindt, it's haymaking. "It’s ‘slow farming’ at its most satisfying. We’ve got a thirteen acre pasture – the Back Meadow - that hosts Mrs F’s cattle for most of the year, and grows a cracking hay crop from March ‘till June – if the farming gods smile on us, of course." #farming #UKfarming #agriculture #Hampshirefarming #countryside #farmer

'We all know commercial shooting is often one of the Achilles heels of the shooting debate but why do they need to survive, who do they help, what benefit do they bring and how do they need to adjust?' - Emily Graham on #Scribehound What is your opinion of commercial shoots? #gameshooting #fieldsports #pheasatshooting #shooting #shotgun #beating #pickingup #countryside #countrysports

"Decades of mismanagement and poor policy has left our rare and precious chalkstream environments in a perilous state" Read or listen to Mark read his article 'The Fragile Beauty of Our Chalkstreams is Under Threat' on #Scribehound https://lnkd.in/edvQw6-8 #chalkstreams #fishing #UKrivers #conservation #chalkstreamrivers #fishingUK

"The classic Macnab - salmon, stag and grouse - may be costly but try one of the variants and the experience will never be forgotten." Read more or listen to Jonathan read his article 'Bagging a Macnab: the ultimate and very affordable challenge' on #Scribehound https://lnkd.in/epgdmBk2

Should game shots take exams? "With further regulation likely on the horizon, would a proactive approach to mandatory exams for game shooters help our cause?" - Will Pocklington on #Scribehound Read more - https://ow.ly/wFYa50SRl06

"Labour's threatened scrapping of agricultural property relief will encourage short-termism and harm the rural economy." Jamie Blackett writes on #Scribehound Read more https://ow.ly/f55J50SRiSV #Labour #Britishfarming #farming #UKfarming #agriculture #ruraleconomy

'Government plan to ‘re-sea’ North Somerset' - Charlie Jacoby "For rewilding on steroids, look at Somerset. The government believes that nuclear power station Hinkley Point will kill 800 acres of fish. It wants owner EDF to offset that by flooding 800 acres of land with sea water. It wants EDF to re-sea the land." Read or listen to Charlie's column on #Scribehound