The Countryside Alliance, BASC, British Game Alliance, CLA, Game Farmers’ Association, Moorland Association, National Gamekeepers’ Organisation (NGO) and Scottish Land & Estates, with the GWCT acting as advisers, have joined forces to form Aim to Sustain, a partnership that sets out to promote the role sustainable shooting plays in boosting biodiversity, protecting the countryside and supporting rural communities.
At the launch, which took place at The Game Fair, Nick Herbert, chairman of the Countryside Alliance, likened the initiative to a “NATO for the countryside, a signal to the opposition that we are ready to make the case robustly for our world”.
The nine partner organisations are no strangers to working together. Many were already part of the Shoot Liaison Committee, an informal group that has helped protect and grow the…