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National Resources Wales have said they will not renew shooting leases on public land from Feb 2019 onwards

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This has come about after an extensive campaign by animal rights activists and a targeted questionair that was circulated most intensively in towns and cities in order to manipulate the outcome culminating in a request to sign a petition to the Welsh Assembly.
This is how the rights of the rural minority's get eroded.
Shooting managment in Wales supports almost 2400 full time jobs and contributes a great deal to the rural economy.
 
It is for all land where the shooting rights have been leased from Natural Resources Wales, no matter if it's a private shoot, syndicate or commercial shoot.
Private land remains unaffected but the animal rights people are now concentrating on raising welfare standards for breeding game birds which is aimed at making the industry uneconomical.
I doubt the Welsh government has considered the cost of land managment that they're going to have to take on when the shoots are no longer doing it.
 
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