Blogs
4/9/2023 in: GWCT News Blog under: Farming , Advice
As part of Defra’s efforts to protect hedgerows in England, they launched a consultation in June to gather your views and suggestions. The consultation will close on 20 September, so there is still time for you to have your say and help shape the future of hedgerow policy.
29/8/2023 in: GWCT News Blog under: Advice , GWCT Scotland
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.
22/8/2023 in: GWCT News Blog under: Advice , GWCT Wales
The inaugural Agriculture Act to emerge from Wales has officially received Royal Assent. While the national headlines of the Act are about the proposed Sustainable Farming Scheme (SFS), those in the gamekeeping and conservation communities have been dealt a huge blow with the banning of all snares, including the GWCT-devised humane cable restraint.
15/6/2023 in: GWCT News Blog under: Policy , General Licences , Advice
GWCT are advising all shoots planning to release gamebirds on or within 500m of a Special Protection Area this summer to apply for a licence without delay.
13/6/2023 in: GWCT News Blog under: Advice
Starting July next year, the legal authorisation for using bromadiolone and difenacoum, the only two second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides (SGARs) currently allowed in open areas and waste dumps, will be withdrawn.
13/6/2023 in: GWCT News Blog under: Advice , GWCT Wales , Pheasants & Releasing
The deadline for consultation responses is Tuesday, 20th June. It is imperative that those involved in game management and shooting, in whatever capacity and in any location in the UK respond to this consultation.
8/6/2023 in: GWCT News Blog under: Advice , Pheasants & Releasing , Letters
Aim to Sustain including GWCT as scientific advisors to the partnership, has written to the Secretary of State Thérèse Coffey calling for an urgent review of GL43, the gamebird releasing General Licence for protected sites and their buffers.
1/6/2023 in: GWCT News Blog under: Advice , General Licences , Pheasants & Releasing
Further to yesterday’s blog, Defra has now published GL43, the general licence that permits the release of gamebirds on or within a 500m buffer zone of certain protected sites in England.
24/5/2023 in: GWCT News Blog under: Advice , Farming
Boots and sunnies on, sandwiches packed, clipboards at the ready… GWCT’s Advisors are out and about and busier than ever with biodiversity audits!
19/5/2023 in: GWCT News Blog under: Advice
GWCT, like other rural conservation organisations has called for an urgent response from Defra over its proposal to make a major change to GL43 – the interim general licence which covers gamebird release on or within 500m of European Protected Sites in England.