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Last week at the JAGD & HUND, Europe’s largest hunting exhibition, FACE unveiled its new "Patron Programme", which provides industry with a means to support a strong future for hunting and conservation. FACE is delighted to announce Blaser, BioAmmo...

Today, thousands of scientists across and beyond Europe called for higher ambition in addressing sustainability challenges in the next Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Europe’s national hunting associations are increasingly concerned....

It is with deep sadness that we inform you of the death of Avv. Giovanni Bana. Many will remember Giovanni Bana as a strenuous defender of sustainable hunting in Europe, a very keen ornithologist and champion of migratory bird hunting and conservation in the Mediterranean....

On 18 February 2020, there was an exchange of views with the European Commission (EC) on lead gunshots in the European Parliament’s Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI). FACE was mentioned on several occasions...

The two groups that gather organisations representing rural actors and regions in the EU highlighted this during the ‘Amplifying local voices: Addressing rural development in the CAP post 2020’ event at the Representation of the...

The 13th Conference of Parties of the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS COP13) is the first of a series of international nature-related meetings in 2020, which will culminate in the UN Biodiversity Conference in China....

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FACE recently participated at the 39th meeting of the Standing Committee of the Bern Convention, 3-6 December 2019. The Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats (or Bern Convention) is the first international agreement dedicated to nature conservation, covering most of Europe and some African countries (now 50 States in total). ...

Recent data indicate that most large carnivore populations in Europe are stable or increasing. This is a conservation success, but it also raises multiple questions of coexistence with natural and human activities. In a recent ruling, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) confirmed that the use of hunting as a population management tool for strictly protected species is compatible with EU law. But what does that mean? And what are the possible next steps?...

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