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Prince Charles has thrown his weight behind an anti-poaching drive. He made the promise
when he met Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete in Sri Lanka during the Commonwealth Heads
of Government Meeting. According to Kikwete, Prince Charles plans an anti-poaching conference
in February next year.
George Digweed MBE has been celebrating his most successful competitive year. He hosted
a special evening to thank all the people who have helped with his career. Over 90 guests
from all over the world were invited to join George and his wife Kate. Each of the nine
tables had one of his trophies as a centre piece.
It's nice to be able to say thank you to everybody thats supported me throughout my career and
you know it's a nice way to do it, a very special place to do it. I can only be as good
as the products I endorse. If they are not consistent they are not good they are not
quality products I would not have won what I have won over a consistent period of time.
At the end of the evening George was presented with a specially commissioned Perazzi shotgun,
hand delivered by a Mr Perrazzi himself.
You know to make it and less than one month we make the gun usually we take 3 or 4 month.
I did you know so fast way because was very important to have the gun ready for this evening.
The Arizona Game and Fish Department have been rounding up bighorn sheep for release
in the Catalina Mountains in the state. It is a US$600,000 project funded by hunters
and hunting licences to replace a herd that died out in the 1990s. Each animal has a satellite
GPS collar that will fall off after about 2 years. Biologists will closely track their
movement. Government agencies and conservation groups reached an agreement to kill a mountain
lion if it preys on a sheep.
Children in Northern Ireland will be allowed guns, according to a government minister.
David Ford, who is Northern Ireland Justice Minister is considering lowering the age at
which young people can have supervised access to shotguns and airguns to 12 years of age.
Our films have now been watched over 1 million times on the Chinese version of You Tube.
We started translating and uploading a few weeks ago. So far Roy shooting feral pigeons
in London is proving to be the most popular film on Youku with one of the Chinese comments
suggesting that they taste better than chicken
A native American tribe has said that its love of eels changed the course of white history
in America. According to the Mi'kmaq [mickmack] a party of their number was meant to be supplying
gunpowder to the French forces at Louisbourg [Lewisberg], Which was under siege in 1758.
However, they stopped for eel stew, which sent them to sleep as eating eels is known
to do, and consequently the French not only lost Louisbourg but soon the whole of their
foothold in North America.
And finally, while filming a fishing trip on the "Top Hook" off New York a cameraman
caught this amazing feat.
He's on oh.
Thankfully it was a cheap rod.
You are now up to date with Fieldsports Channel News. Stalking the stories, fishing for facts.
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