BASC has accused Defra of issuing illegal advice to cull hundreds of thousands of gamebirds. The shooting organisation has criticised new Defra guidance that suggests the killing of gamebirds as a response to a growing animal welfare crisis in the countryside, caused by changes to rules around the release of gamebirds announced without warning last month. Young pheasants cannot be kept in pens after the age of nine weeks without significant welfare issues, and this deadline rapidly approaches. A source close to the Government has suggested that the shambolic handling of the reissuing of GL43 was not only down to poor policy and an apparent vendetta against the shooting fraternity, but also a clerical error. The source suggests important sign-off documents did not go through the proper channels and were not as such subject to the normal protocols due to departmental incompetence. This governmental administrational oversight, it has been said, is in part to blame for the woeful lack of c
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