What is needed now is for NE to take a step back and rethink its approach, not spend more public money fighting against common sense. How shooting’s conservation spend compares with Natural England’sAs a community we spend £500m annually on conservation work. That works out at around £20m a year, or about 4% of the annual conservation spend by shooting. NE recently announced the selection of a new chief executive, Neil Hornby, and we look forward to working with him. Where BASC and Natural England still share common groundIn principle, BASC and NE share the same aims for conservation and the sustainable use of natural resources.