BASC has created a unique mechanism for involving the full range of the shooting community in the mainstream conservation processes.  We did this as the access to land that shooters have and their passion for a healthy environment to shoot in make them an invaluable partner to the conservation world.

This mechanism has been used to create five projects which cover counties (Cheshire, Dorset), regions (North Wales, Somerset Levels) or country (Northern Ireland). The first phase is a biological survey of shooting land, performed by our members to tell us what species and habitats occur there. Over 7,700 sq km have been audited since 2000 and the number of biological records generated exceeds 52,000.  Each local survey’s high coverage of their project area (between 16% and 43%), combined with the number of biological records, has vastly increased the knowledge of the conservation and wildlife recording community.

This data, collected by BASC, can then be used with both statutory and voluntary conservation partners to target effort on biodiversity priority species and habitats. Each of the section links provide details of the projects and of personnel in post who can be contacted.