- 2019 SCOTTISH RURAL AWARDS OPEN FOR NOMINATIONSFriday, 20 July 2018
- The anti-hunting lobby is motivated by prejudice, not animal welfareSunday, 13 May 2018
- Further thoughts on the Raven Research LicenceMonday, 30 April 2018
- Scottish Countryside Alliance Statement on SNH Raven research licenceTuesday, 24 April 2018
- Crowds flock to market squares and village meets across Scotland on New Years day to demonstrate support for their local foxhound packMonday, 1 January 2018A survey of registered foxhound packs has found that 70% have more women participants and 54% have more young people than they did ten years ago. Over 94% had members in every age category.Read more
Countryside Alliance’s Director for Scotland Jamie Stewart said: “There are very few activities which demonstratively bring the generations and genders together and many packs meeting today will have active participants of every age with many children riding out with their parents and grandparents for the first time.”
“In addition to the most welcome age demographics, the use of social media has brought the reality of the activity to the attention of a greater number of people than ever before and offers us the opportunity to broadcast the truth about our activities as many who would see it end try to influence the public and decision makers with misleading and disingenuous information.
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A survey of registered foxhound packs has found that 70% have more women participants and 54% have more young people than they did ten years ago. Over 94% had members in every age category.
Countryside Alliance’s Director for Scotland Jamie Stewart said: “There are very few activities which demonstratively bring the generations and genders together and many packs meeting today will have active participants of every age with many children riding out with their parents and grandparents for the first time.”
“In addition to the most welcome age demographics, the use of social media has brought the reality of the activity to the attention of a greater number of people than ever before and offers us the opportunity to broadcast the truth about our activities as many who would see it end try to influence the public and decision makers with misleading and disingenuous information.
We hope you enjoy the short film and welcome your feedback - Online questionnaire about firearms licensing in ScotlandFriday, 20 October 2017
- Members of the National Trust have been invited to elect up to six candidates for the Council ahead of the AGM on 21st October.Thursday, 19 October 2017
- Sufficient evidence to support the practice of tail shortening in certain dog breeds in conjunction with shooting, principally Spaniels and HPR’s.Wednesday, 14 June 2017
- Clay Shoot that almost matches the excitement of a big day at WhitfieldThursday, 13 April 2017For the game shot this is the perfect close season challengeRead more
- Scottish Countryside Alliance responds to Cabinet Secretary’s announcementThursday, 2 February 2017
Rural Life
Supporting Rural Communities and Businesses
The Scottish Countryside Alliance believes that all rural communities deserve vibrant local schools, busy community owned village halls, and new and growing business resources and services. We believe that Scotland’s communities can form a wealth of opportunity from the development of our vast natural resources and by fully exploiting the new opportunities that are emerging from the sustainable management of our environment, whether that is a growing forest estate or the expansion of local biomass energy generation from food or farm waste, create sustainable lifestyles for all ages within our rural landscape.MORE...
Shooting
Supporting Shooting
Shooting does not face an outright ban – yet. However, we should never forget that shooting faces regular threats whether through restrictions on the guns we use, the ammunition we fire, the birds we rear, the land we use or our very presence in the countryside we love.MORE...
Hunting
Supporting Hunting
The Scottish hunting community are rightly proud of their achievements. Having come through an all-encompassing campaign fighting to save the sport and in many cases livelihoods, they emerged from the fight on February 13, 2002, blooded but unbeaten. Ten years later, we must recognise and commend the resilience of hunting folk – the fact that we still have a form of fox hunting in Scotland is testament to the determination of the people involved.MORE...
Angling
Economics benefits to rural Scotland
There has long been a perception that angling for game and coarse fish is important to the Scottish economy. In August 2001 a report entitled Scotland’s Freshwater Fish and Fisheries: Securing their Future, gave an in-depth economic analysis of the sector. reporting that angling is valuable to Scotland, and particularly to rural Scotland.MORE...
 2019 SCOTTISH RURAL AWARDS OPEN FOR NOMINATIONSFriday, 20 July 2018 Nominations for the 2019 Scottish Rural Awards are now open, with businesses across Scotland's countryside encouraged to get involved.  Countryside Alliance respond to missing Hen HarriersTuesday, 22 May 2018 In response to the RSPB’s press release ‘Three hen harriers vanish in suspicious circumstances’ please find below a statement from Scottish Countryside Alliance Director, Jamie Stewart.  The anti-hunting lobby is motivated by prejudice, not animal welfareSunday, 13 May 2018 ‘The anti-hunting lobby is motivated by prejudice, not animal welfare - they just can’t stand the sight of a huntsman in a red coat’ By Jamie Stewart, director of The Scottish Countryside Alliance  Further thoughts on the Raven Research LicenceMonday, 30 April 2018 Jamie Stewart, the Director of the Scottish Countryside Alliance writes: The Scottish Countryside Alliance welcomed the pragmatic approach taken by SNH last week in granting a five-year licence for raven control across part of Perthshire, to learn more about the impact of raven predation on ground nesting birds such as the curlew. In the face of fierce remonstrations, the decision is a win for practical conservation.  Scottish Countryside Alliance Statement on SNH Raven research licenceTuesday, 24 April 2018 The Scottish Countryside Alliance welcomes the practical approach taken by Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) in granting a research licence to mitigate the impact of raven predation on vulnerable and red-listed ground nesting birds. On what is an obviously contentious issue, SNH is to be congratulated for disagreeing with the largest conservation bodies in the country by prioritising science over emotion.  Research shows hunting is irrelevant to Scottish votersTuesday, 6 March 2018 It is one of the great paradoxes of our age that as activists and the political classes become more and more obsessed with animal rights issues the public remains largely unmoved. Hunting, of course, remains the totemic issue but despite acres of press comment and social media posts our research, as well of that of others, consistently confirms that it is utterly irrelevant to the way people vote. This rejection of public priorities is fundamentally bad politics and nowhere is there a better example of that than in Scotland.  The Hunt. A new PerspectiveMonday, 1 January 2018 Crowds flock to market squares and village meets across Scotland on New Years day to demonstrate support for their local foxhound pack. |
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