Securing wildlife habitat for the future
Actions speak louder than words. It was with this maxim that the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) understood the requirement to provide a portal to show our commitment to both shooting and conservation in equal measure on the ground. To that end, the Wildlife Habitat Trust (WHT) was established in 1986 at the request of BASC members. It has become well known as the UK’s sporting shooting conservation fund and has seen BASC lead successfully by example.
Today, there are three separate trusts: the WHT lends money to support land purchase for shooting and conservation purposes; the Wildlife Habitat Charitable Trust (WHCT) provides funding, in the form of both loans and grants, where charitable objectives are met by the conservation project; finally, the Wildlife Habitat Conservation Stamp Trust (WHCST) is the merchandising and fundraising arm. Each year the WHCST commissions a prominent wildlife artist to paint an iconic wild bird with an equally renowned backdrop. In 2019, the fundraising
