pheasant
Podcast: Should we eat more game?
In this week's podcast, editor Fergus Collins discusses the pros and cons of more meat-eaters trying game and explores the ethics of shooting in modern Britain.
Why has a licence been granted to allow up to 10 buzzards to be killed?
Conservationists have reacted angrily to Natural England's granting of a licence to allow a landowner in Northumberland to kill buzzards in order to protect his young pheasants. We spoke to Natural England to find out more about why it took this controversial decision
Moving to the countryside Part 35: predators at large
It's the killing time as a host of predators take advantage of young animals leaving nest and burrow
Moving to the countryside Part 34: a good spring, a bad pheasant
It's been a glorious spring but not for my chickens