Advice
- Statutory Suspension of Wildfowl Shooting in
Severe Winter Weather
- Information for wildfowlers on the suspension of shooting
during severe winter weather plus guidelines and reporting form for
country agency staff.
- Review of Schedule 4 of the Wildlife &
Countryside Act 1981
- In August 2002, the Department of the Environment, Food and
Rural Affairs (Defra) and the Welsh Assembly initiated a public
consultation on the future of Schedule 4 in England and Wales in
order to ‘to reduce the regulatory burden on keepers as far as
is practicable whilst ensuring that populations of indigenous wild
birds can be sustained’. Following the public consultation on
the bird registration scheme (completed in November 2002),
Ministers from Defra and the Welsh Assembly invited JNCC to
establish and apply scientific criteria for listing birds under
Schedule 4 of the Wildlife & Countryside Act.
This review is the outcome of that process.