Oakbank Game & Conservation Ltd (Cambs)

“Having started working together at a large agricultural merchant running their game cover department, Tim (“well known in the Game Shooting world, as a regular contributor to a number of magazines and as a judge for the prestigious Purdey Awards”) and Ian saw an opportunity to work more closely with farmers and land owners…” So-called ‘game cover‘ is routinely oversold as ‘conservation’ because by providing eg field margins for pheasants and partridges landowners are also (so the narrative goes) providing seeds and habitat for other birds like finches and buntings. Why landowners can’t provide that cover to help offset the enormous habitat losses and biodiversity declines created by intensive farming without also selling birds for the gun is not something that gets debated very often. Nor does the fact that, as our supporter tells us, Essex County Council used Oakbank for a ‘farm walk’ at Hadleigh Farm Estate hosted by an employee and a former employee of the company…yet another way to spread shooting’s ‘conservation’ balderdash presumably…