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Angler's Conservation Association. In 1948, backed by funds of just £200, a new pollution fighting body fought its very first case in Britain and won! Three years later, the ACA forced a city corporation to spend £1.8m - worth £25m at today's prices - on a new sewage works. Since that successful start the ACA has brought innumerable cases to a successful conclusion, recovering millions of pounds for those affected by pollution. Today, the ACA, takes on all polluters and others who would damage fisheries, rivers streams, lakes and ponds from the largest multinational corporations to one-man fly-tipping operations. If necessary, the ACA will pursue cases all the way to the Court of Appeal or even the House of Lords. In its entire history, the ACA has only lost three cases - a record second to none. Such is its reputation that most cases are settled out of court, with defendants being made to pay compensation to enable polluted rivers, lakes and fisheries to be cleaned up, restocked and restored. No organisation fights that threat as single-mindedly or effectively as ACA.
Atlantic Salmon Trust. During the last 30 years, numbers of wild Salmon returning from the sea have fallen by more than half. Wild Salmon and Sea Trout are an important natural resource and we need your help to find out why, and what can be done to stem this decline. Set up in 1967, the Atlantic Salmon Trust is involved in the funding and sponsorship of practical research programmes tackling the problems wild Atlantic Salmon and Sea Trout face today.
BASC The national representative body for sporting shooting. BASC is a professional organisation representing members from every branch of shooting. We care passionately about our sport. The shooting men and women of the past have handed down a legacy which we are determined to pass on, in turn, to those who will come after us. Our mission is to promote and protect sporting and shooting and the well-being of the countryside throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. We represent our members' interests by providing a voice for sporting shooting which includes wildfowling, game, and rough shooting, deer stalking, target shooting and air gunning, pigeon shooting and pest control, gun dogs, promoting practical habitat conservation, training and the setting of standards and undertaking appropriate research
The British Deer Society is a charity promoting conservation through a programme of education, research, deer management training and the Society journal “Deer”. Deer share their environment with a great many other creatures and with man. Man uses the countryside to produce food crops, for grazing, to grow trees and for a wide range of leisure activities. Man’s requirements take precedence over those of other creatures, and truly ‘wild habitats’ no longer exist in Britain. Animals have learned to adapt to the areas left to them and to utilise areas such as parks and gardens as the natural countryside dwindles. The urban fox is well known, having featured in many television programmes, what is less well known is that the Muntjac, our smallest deer, is almost as common in some urban areas.
CLA The Country Land and Business Association. The CLA was founded almost one hundred years ago to protect the interests of owners of rural land in England and Wales. Today, our membership encompasses the full diversity of land, property and business and it is this experience and expertise which enables us to fight hard for a thriving rural economy.
Countryside Alliance. The Countryside Alliance's purpose is to campaign for the countryside, country sports and the rural way of life. Through campaigning, lobbying, publicity and education the Alliance seeks to influence legislation and public policy to ensure the sustainability of rural life
The Countryside Foundation for Education (CFE) is an educational charity, established in 1986. We provide balanced teaching materials for schools that inform and encourage debate about the countryside, and also provide training for teachers about how to use the countryside in their teaching. We are committed to improving an understanding of rural Britain and to enhancing and improving the quality of education for young people in preparation for adult and working life. Our aim is that our materials and training will result in a population that, while it may be urban based, is able to make choices about our countryside from a basis of knowledge and reason.
The English Ladies Flyfishing Association or ELFA, was first formed in 1989 and has gone from strength to strength since then. The aim of the association is to promote fly fishing by, for, and amongst ladies. We now have over one hundred members. We annually hold a number of get-togethers, some of them match orientated, others just an opportunity for ladies to fish together. We also hold fund raising events such as the mixed pairs and an auction in May. The major event in our calendar is the National, which is held in the autumn. The results from this determine the team that will represent England in the International the following year. To date we have competed in thirteen Internationals and the team have won eight gold medals.
The Game Conservancy Trust conducts scientific research into Britain’s game and wildlife. We advise farmers and landowners on improving wildlife habitat and we lobby for agricultural and conservation policies based on science. Many of our supporters take part in field sports. They invest in managing wildlife habitat in the countryside. This improves biodiversity and represents a philosophy of "Conservation through wise use".
The Grayling Society. From very modest beginnings in 1977 and a handful of original members, the Society has grown internationally. At this date, more than 250 of our members live and fish for Grayling outside the United Kingdom. Membership of the Society provides you with an opportunity to make a direct contribution to the conservation of perhaps the most beautiful of all wild game fish. In return for your support, the Grayling Society will provide you with a range of benefits - principally aimed at informing you about the Grayling and its habitat - offering advice on fishing and helping you to keep in touch with other like minded anglers throughout the world. Currently, the Society has members in a total of 18 countries around the World, with Overseas Secretaries in Europe, Scandinavia and Canada.
The Pike Anglers Club of Great Britain was formed in 1977 as a direct result of changing attitudes toward pike. For far too long pike had been regarded by fishery owners and some anglers as vermin, to be killed and removed at all costs. Since it's inception, the PAC has done much to drastically change this mistaken attitude and pike are now widely regarded as a positive element in the natural balance of any fishery. Pike fishing has without doubt become one of the most specialised branches of coarse fishing. Not least in the methods of handling, unhooking and safe return of the fish once caught. One of the most important aspects of the PAC's work is in helping young or novice pike anglers to overcome what for some are areas of difficulty. You may well have experienced that feeling of 'what do I do now', having just caught your first pike. You are not alone, many have experienced it and lived to tell the tale, thanks to the friendly assistance of PAC members offering sound advice and guidance. The PAC works continually for the benefit of all pike and pike anglers, we seek only to further the opportunities for pike fishing, whilst preserving all that pike fishing is all about. We strive to protect pike from persecution by those who do not understand, or choose to ignore, the facts about the important role the pike plays in the balance of nature. We also work to promote pike conservation through safe practice by anglers.
RSPB Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. The RSPB was founded in 1889 and has grown into Europe's largest wildlife conservation charity with more than a million members. From its initial stance against the trade in wild birds plumage the issues which the Society tackles have grown hugely in number and size. Find out how we are structured and funded, who we work with and where the money goes. Coordinated by country headquarters in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, offices around the UK work to conserve wildlife regionally. Whether you join the RSPB, give a donation or undertake voluntary work, all support is vital to the future of the UKs birds.
Saint Hubert Club of Great Britain. The St. Hubert Club of Great Britain was founded in 1953, in order to create fraternity amongst sportsmen all over the world. Its aim is the conservation and pursuit in a sportsman like manner of all types of game. The St. Hubert Club is however, primarily concerned with the training of its member stalkers, and was the first organisation in the United Kingdom to plan and operate a formal programme of training, both in theory and in practice. In addition to its stalker training the St. Hubert Club also provides a congenial meeting ground for the exchange of member’s views and experiences. The idea, so profoundly united with nature, wild life, and sport, helps in creating friendship among people who understand and appreciate the opportunities presented through sport. Contact is maintained with sporting organisations in other countries: St. Hubert Clubs are established all over the world and the spirit of St. Hubert is widely spread. The Club participates in various national and international enterprises, such as International Hunting Exhibitions, Plovdiv, Bulgaria Budapest and has taken an active part in the International Congress of Game Biologists in Denmark, Holland, Italy, the North American Wild Life Conference as well as numerous conferences and game fairs in the United Kingdom, in addition to organising deer and other game exhibitions. The Club is actively concerned with the conservation and management of deer in particular, and wildlife in general, the preservation of habitat and with legislation affecting hunting, shooting and fishing. The Club advocates and practices deer management and selective control providing many of the country’s major land owners/administrators with the services of highly trained and proficient stalkers.
Salmon and Trout Association has 115,000 individual and club members throughout the UK within a countrywide branch network. A small professional staff is based in London and Edinburgh and there is access to a full-time lobbyist in Brussels through the European Anglers’ Alliance. The S&TA has excellent contacts in both Houses of Parliament, Scottish Parliament and National Assembly for Wales and the staff have a close working relationship with senior officials in the European Commission, UK Ministries, and the many government agencies. The Management Council, comprising democratically elected representatives from Wales, Northern Ireland and the nine regions in England, govern the affairs of the Association. Scotland has its own elected Council and a representative attends the Management Council. The Patron of the S&TA is HRH The Prince of Wales, with the The Duke of Northumberland as the President.
World Wildlife Fund (WWF) leads international efforts to protect endangered species and their habitats. Now in its fifth decade, WWF works in more than 100 countries around the globe to conserve the diversity of life on earth. With nearly 1.2 million members in the U.S. and another 4 million worldwide, WWF is the world's largest privately financed conservation organisation.