Sportsmen and women have been conserving wildlife since the creation of the Royal Hunting Forests in Norman times. They understood that a healthy quarry population relied upon good quality habitat and this concept remains at the heart of shooting sports today. Shooting sports have been and continue to be a large incentive for the retention of habitat and a driving force in habitat management, restoration and creation.

The Conservation and Land Management Department was the first specific team to be created over 25 years ago.  We are here to help secure shooting sports and champion shooting’s contribution to wildlife conservation.

 We can:

• provide advice and services to members to help generate agreements for land to shoot over
• provide advice on land purchase and tenures (see rural land purchase and management section)
• provide advice on land management to support quarry species and general wildlife
• provide our Green Shoots programme, working with members and partners to achieve public conservation targets