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8/9/2020 in: GWCT News Blog under: Hen harrier/Grouse shooting
Hen harriers in England have just had another record-breaking year: 60 chicks from 19 nests says Natural England, and the RSPB is reporting a further five nests. The significance of this remarkable achievement is illustrated by the fact that English hen harrier Favourable Conservation Status (FCS) is 61 pairs.
13/8/2020 in: GWCT News Blog under: Letters , Hen harrier/Grouse shooting
10/8/2020 in: GWCT News Blog under: Letters , Hen harrier/Grouse shooting
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.
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.
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.