Field Sports

Young Farmers

LADIES AND gentlemen - the two winning teams of SAYFC's tug o'war competition

SAYFC back in action with passion, style and strength
Saturday at the Royal Highland Show saw an epic battle of passion, power and skill, as teams of Young Farmers assembled for the grand final of the SAYFC tug-of-war competition.

Doddie Weir and Rob Wainwright

Stars back the Doddie Aid challenge

DMAC member David Hutchinson launches one of his model planes

Fife model aeroplane flyers seek a new home

SGA chairman Alex Hogg has urged Nicola Sturgeon to ensure rural jobs are protected when entering into coalition talks with the Scottish Greens

Scotland’s rural workforce must not be 'thrown under a bus' by a Green coalition

Game rearers have been given advice on best practice for disease management in protecting flocks

Bird flu threat not over for game bird rearers preparing for busy shooting season

The SGA claim that 13,100 rural jobs could be on the line, if the Scottish Green party seek to end all game management and angling in Scotland (Pic: Jonathan McGee)

Updated Nicola Sturgeon urged not to sacrifice gamekeeper livelihoods in pursuit of Greens' policy support

Scottish Countryside Alliance condemns political proposals to ban fox hunting as a form of pest control

Future policy must protect the 'interwoven tapestry' of rural Scotland

The British Association for Shooting and Conservation is encouraging shooters of all persuasions from across Scotland to sign up to its regional online hustings

Holyrood election hustings for Scotland’s shooting community

Highland pony parade and competition at the GWCT Scottish Game Fair – a major and popular feature of the event

Game Fair will go ahead this September

The Rural Workers’ Protest 2021 – #RWP21 – has been organised for March 19 by the Scottish Gamekeepers Association and Scotland’s regional moorland groups

Rural workers feel 'marginalised' by ScotGov

It is estimated that the value of country sports tourism to the Scottish economy is £200m per year, with 8800 full-time equivalent jobs being supported by the sector (Pic: Jonathan McGee / BGA)

Lifeline of £1million support offered to country sports businesses

GAME MEAT from Scotland is prized overseas

Game meat suffers post-Brexit export problems

Over 50,000 people explore game dishes online over Great British Game Week

Consumers get creative with game dishes

GAMEKEEPERS fear that the move to licensing is just a stepping stone to anti-shooting campaigners' final objective of a total ban on fieldsports

Grouse moors to be licensed

Pheasant is the most popular game bird and is the best place to start if you’ve never tried game before

Stock up on game in celebration of Great British Game Week

Kate Forbes, MSP for Skye Lochaber and Badenoch, and Julia Stoddart, CEO of Jahama Highand Estates, at the opening of the new venison retail unit in Fort William (Pic: Iain Ferguson)

Wild venison brand for the Highlands

Pheasants on the GWCT Scottish Demonstration Farm at Auchnerran (Photo credit: Merlin Becker)

GWCT launches guide to wildlife friendly game management

GAMEKEEPERS have marched to protest the public and politcial attacks on their livelihoods

Gamekeepers report regular public abuse

A TRAINED gundog is a valuable asset

Incidents of dog theft worry shooters

Preventative testing and effective grouse management is essential to ensuring game brids thrive on Scotland's moors

Game bird service keeps Scotland's grouse thriving

THE SATELLITE tag upon the sheet of lead that RSPB Scotland claims it was found wrapped in (Pic: RSPB Scotland)

Lead-wrapped satellite tag revives row between conservationists and gamekeepers

Deer in the Highlands

Covid clampdown will 'cut the legs' from deer stalking businesses

Scottish Land and Estates has accused critics of country sports for using the pandemic as a means to escalate calls for a ban (Pic:Léopold Amory)

Country sports are vital to rural Scotland's recovery

Safety precautions and social distancing is in place for the start of the grouse season here in the Lammermuir Hills (PC: Phil Wilkinson Photography)

Socially distanced shooting season begins

A rapid response from local gamekeepers has saved an important moorland restoration project in the Peak District

Gamekeepers prevent wildfire tragedy in the Peak District

A grouse chick with tick infestation around its eye

Inspections and record keeping prove effective for tick management

No rest for the keepers

FISHING is not a sport associated with big crowds

Anglers welcome lockdown relaxation hope

Game shooting tourism generates millions for the rural economy

Game sector added to crisis help scheme

The online auction includes over 150 lots to bid for, including stalking on Fealar

GWCT 'super auction' goes live

A combined effort of fire crews, gamekeepers, farmers and volunteers extinguished the fire before excessive damage could be caused

Fighting wildfire to save rare birds

NHS letters cut into heather on the hill by gamekeepers on Greenlaw Moor

Heather message for ambulance crews

Preparations are underway for the shooting season (Pic: Jonathan McGee)

Cautious preparation for shooting season

Police and fire brigade officials who attended the scene of the blaze near Warrington have classified it as a deliberate criminal act

Shoots targeted in lockdown crimes

A new online course on corvid control is available to game and wildlife managers

Online training for crow control

A gamekeeper working at the fire face in Sutherland (Pic: SGA Media)

Gamekeepers help subdue Sutherland croft fire

Deer in the Highlands

Deer management meeting cancelled

ENVIRONMENT MINISTER Mairi Gougeon on the Hopes Estate with its owner owner Robbie Douglas Miller, and members of Scottish Land and Estates

Fact-finding on a sporting estate

Grouse moors braced for major changes in wake of Werritty review (Dpexel from Pixabay)

Major changes to hit Scotland's grouse moors

A girl with a gun

Scottish Game Fair looks forward to 32nd year

Moorland Communities gather at Perth Concert Hall to protest against Chris Packham’s campaign of misinformation about rural issues.(PC: Perthshire Picture Agency)

Packham protest in Perth

Hen harrier appeal by RSPB has raised suspicions over its timing (Pic: Skeeze/Pixabay)

RSPB hen harrier appeal ruffles feathers

A pile of dead wildlife

Come down hard on wildlife criminals

Shooting Party on Rottal Moor in the Angus Glens (Perthshire Picture Agency)

A promising 2019 grouse season

The Moray wildfire of 2019 left miles of devastated land in its wake

Muirburn is not the main cause of wildfires, gamekeepers insist

Pheasant - very tasty if you know what to do with it

Shooting sector strives to make more of its meat

A nest of Hen Harrier chicks driver on a grouse moor in Yorkshire

Hen Harrier restoration success

Scottish Gamekeepers Association chairman Alex Hogg (left) presents the Ronnie Rose award to Brian Lyall at Moy Highland Field Sports Fair

Badanloch keeper wins education award

Archie Ward (left) with gamekeeper Jack Turner (right), shot the first brace of the day on Rottal Moor in the Angus Glens on the opening day of the season (PC: Perthshire Picture Agency)

A mixed forecast marks the start of Scotland's grouse season

Lapwing and chick

Grouse moors highlight wildlife benefit

An adult salmon heads back upriver

Wild salmon decline threatens jobs on Scotland's rivers

Edwin Third of Deeside Fisheries depositing deer legs into the river

Salmon get a helping hoof

ENGLAND'S General Licence dispute has prompted Scotland to review its own arrangements

Scottish 'General Licence' under scrutiny

Mauricio Pochettino does not think Tottenham will make any signings this summer

Pochettino pragmatic about Spurs’ quiet transfer window