Blogs

We have a limited number of 100% grass-fed beef hampers available from Auchnerran, our Scottish Demonstration Farm.

It is very difficult to come to terms with the Environment Minister Gillian Martin MSP’s decision to ban all types of snares in Scotland given the resulting prospects for rural management and biodiversity. Soul-destroying even.

As the leaves change, we’re here to provide you with news of our teams’ summer endeavours, covering the events calendar, policy developments, and the latest advances in our ongoing research projects.

An update on policy from the GWCT Scotland Team. 

Join us in welcoming our new Scottish research students for 2023/24. Learn a little bit more about each of our students and what they hope to achieve with their time at GWCT.

The pressing need to respond to global climate change and biodiversity loss is undoubtedly driving a large part of our Scottish policy work this year, with government consultations, draft legislation, parliamentary evidence sessions and more coming our way.

The RSPB Scotland has nominated the GWCT’s Balgonie Biodiversity Project for the 2023 Nature of Scotland Awards. It is one of four projects shortlisted in the Food and Farming category for its excellent work at the arable demonstration farm near Glenrothes in eastern Scotland.

The West Tayside committee are once again holding their “Fairways & Flushes” competition at The Gleneagles Hotel, this year on Friday 6th October.
The day will consist of an 18-team competition, with teams of 4 people competing in a clay competition in the morning, lunch at Auchterarder 70 within the Dormy Clubhouse followed by a Texas Scramble golf competition in the afternoon.

The Scottish Government has announced that it intends to bring forward amendments to the Wildlife Management and Muirburn Bill to ban the use of snares in Scotland.

This Saturday marks the opening of the grouse shooting season, but for many Scottish moors the Twelfth of August 2023 is set to be far from ‘Glorious’.