Codes of practice

Codes of Practice provide clear practical and easily understood guidance on how to adopt the current best practice for a host of game management and shooting activities.  These are created by the Aim to Sustain partners and other key organisations and departmwents.  A short explanation and links are here.

Codes of Practice for the Rearing of Gamebirds for Sporting Purposes.

There are sperate codes for England, Scotland and Wales.  The links can be found here

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/code-of-practice-for-the-welfare-of-gamebirds-reared-for-sporting-purposes

Code of good shooting practice (CoGSP).  This code is endorsed and supported by 11 countryside organisations with a combined membership of 300,000 people. It sets out the framework that enables shoot managers, shooting’s participants, gamekeepers and their employees to deliver sustainable shooting, paying attention to management of habitat and avoiding nuisance to others. All who shoot, or are involved in shooting in any way, should abide by and remind others of the provisions set out within this code. It is a requirement of membership of many of game shooting’s membership organisations.  If shoots do not comply and do not reform as advised by the code, membership organisations can expel offenders.

https://www.codeofgoodshootingpractice.org.uk/

Picking up code of practice

https://basc.org.uk/game-shooting/picking-up/

Guide to good game handling. 

https://www.codeofgoodshootingpractice.org.uk/pdf/good-game-handling.pdf

The Food Standards Agency wild game guidance.

https://www.food.gov.uk/sites/default/files/media/document/V7%20Guidance%20-%20supply%20of%20wild%20game%20for%20human%20consumption.pdf

Best practice on the use of snares for fox control in England

https://basc.org.uk/pest-and-predator-control/fox-snaring/best-practice

Flight ponds code of practice

https://basc.org.uk/wildfowling/advice/flight-ponds-code-of-practice/

Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust principles

www.gwct.org.uk/principles

Sustainable gamebird releasing.

Sustainable gamebird releasing – Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust

Predation control and best practice

Predation control law and best practice – Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust

Responsible use of rodenticide.

http://www.thinkwildlife.org/crru-code.

Shoot biodiversity assessment

GWCT Shoot Biodiversity Tool

Shotgun safety code of practice

https://basc.org.uk/firearms/shotgun-safety/