Consultations
BASC is fighting for your rights
BASC reviews hundreds of government consultations annually. When a threat or opportunity is identified we act when others dither. Last year, we provided a voice for shooters in our responses to 50 consultations ranging from proposals affecting everything from Access to Wildfowling.
BASC's responses to consultations and the rest of its policy work are not formulated on a whim, or written by external consultants. At any one time there are dozens of policy issues affecting shooting being worked on by over 50 staff across the UK. Marshalled by BASC Council and with the help of over 100 experts on our advisory committees, these staff are our frontline troops, armed with the expertise and desire to ensure that shooters are a force to be reckoned with, whether the debate is in Westminster, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Belfast or Brussels.
See a list of what's currently of interest below. If you think we have missed something or if BASC should provide a more detailed briefing on any of these topics please let us know.
Current policy related topics of interest to BASC
England
Hooded crows remain on pest birds list
BASC memorandum to IPCC on Peterlee shootings
Wildfowling, reference areas and marine conservation zones
High speed rail – important advice for shoots
Wales
Welsh action plan for deer management
Scotland
Northern Ireland
Help keep killer tapeworm out of NI
United Kingdom
Thomas Docherty's Private Member's Bill will fail
Keep Britain free of killer tapeworm
Europe
EU questionaire on invasive alien species
Find out more from Conor O'Gorman
Dr Conor O'Gorman
Marford Mill, Rossett, Wrexham, LL12 0HL Tel: 01244 573035
Show full biography and contact detailsConor joined BASC in 2003, spending several years successfully negotiating wildfowling leases and consents in England, Wales and Northern Ireland before expanding his role as Policy Development Manager to oversee the submission of BASC responses to all government consultations nationally and internationally. He specifically represents shooting interests on any proposals affecting the open general licences for pest birds.
Conor qualified as a Zoologist in Ireland in 1996 and began work on a game-keeping and habitat restoration project to save the Irish grey partridge from extinction, for which his research was awarded a PhD. He takes a keen interest in that project to this day, the last Irish population having recovered from a low of 22 birds a decade ago to over 900 birds today.
This webpage was last updated on 6 February 2012.
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