Blogs
20/7/2020 in: GWCT News Blog under: Shop , Hen harrier/Grouse shooting
James Mawle is passionate about the red-listed black grouse. In 1998 there were only 773 males left in England, but thanks to a conservation project involving land managers on a landscape-scale and joint-led by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust, the decline was reversed.
18/5/2020 in: GWCT News Blog under: Letters , Hen harrier/Grouse shooting
We respond to a recent piece in The Guardian, in which the RSPB claim to have been flooded with reports of wildlife crime since the lockdown began.
14/4/2020 in: Uplands Blog under: Hen harrier/Grouse shooting
For many years, the GWCT and others have used a figure of 75% for the percentage of upland heather moorland found in the UK. Some have questioned the basis of that estimate and we discuss it here.
9/4/2020 in: GWCT News Blog under: Hen harrier/Grouse shooting
Find out more about our new collection of case studies of pioneering conservationists in the uplands.
6/3/2020 in: Uplands Blog under: Hen harrier/Grouse shooting , Events
This week saw the 12th North of England Grouse Seminar in Harrogate, run by the GWCT’s Uplands Research Team. Almost 200 delegates with a wide variety of backgrounds gathered to listen to the most up-to-date science around moorland management.
13/2/2020 in: GWCT News Blog under: Hen harrier/Grouse shooting , Letters
George Monbiot forgot to mention that controlled winter heather burning (Opinion, 12 February) has been used for thousands of years to create and protect our open heather moorlands.
13/2/2020 in: Uplands Blog under: Advice , Hen harrier/Grouse shooting
The GWCT Uplands Team are delighted to deliver an updated version of our medicated grit best practice guidelines.
20/11/2019 in: GWCT News Blog under: Letters , Hen harrier/Grouse shooting
15/11/2019 in: GWCT News Blog under: Hen harrier/Grouse shooting , Letters
21/10/2019 in: Uplands Blog under: Hen harrier/Grouse shooting
GWCT Uplands placement student Sandy Jasper describes a busy two months since she began working with the Trust.
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