Woodland Resilience: Deer and grey squirrel management project evening – Welshpool

Funded by Natural Resources Wales (NRW), the project will focus on six areas across Wales covering 200,000 hectares in total. Through it, BASC will work with various partners and stakeholders to monitor and measure the impact that deer and grey squirrels are having on woodlands. This will assist NRW and the Welsh Government to plan how to manage these species.

Following an introduction to the project by woodland resilience officer Hamish Profit, presentations will be given on the following topics by our guest speakers including:

‘General Licences’
~ Glynn Evans (BASC Head of Game and Gundogs’
‘Sustainable Ammunition’
~ David Boden (BASC Training and Education officer)

– Break-

‘TB in deer and common diseases in working dogs’
~David Harris (APHA Vet) & John Morris (Welsh Government animal health officer)
‘Grey squirrel management’
~Hamish Profit and Meurig Rees (BASC Wales)
‘Firearms Licencing Wales’
~Simon Vann (BASC firearms officer)

This will be followed by a question and answer session.

Event details:

The event is free to members and non-members. (A bar will be available to purchase drinks)

Doors open from 6.30pm for a 7pm start. Presentations will finish at 9pm and our guest speakers will be on hand to answer your questions until 10pm.

Booking required – please email us to register your interest in the event.

Email: wales@basc.org.uk stating ‘Welshpool’ evening in the subject line.