Blogs
24/4/2023 in: GWCT News Blog under: Policy
The GWCT is all about science (indeed our charitable objectives include educating the public as to the outcomes of our science) and we regularly call for policy to be based on sound science. In the first quarter of 2023 the England policy team has sought to emphasise that message.
13/3/2023 in: GWCT News Blog under: Events , Pheasants & Releasing , Policy , GWCT Partners , Advice
Please join us at Shropshire Conference Centre, Shrewsbury for our annual Game 23 Conference on Tuesday 28th March.
10/3/2023 in: GWCT News Blog under: Policy
The GWCT supports the return of native species including by reintroduction – after all we have been party to some of them! However, we are of the view that all reintroductions must follow International Union of Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Guidelines.
2/3/2023 in: GWCT News Blog under: Policy , GWCT Partners
Recent high-profile incidents of raptor poisonings have brought the gamekeeping sector’s use of rodenticides under increased scrutiny.
7/2/2023 in: GWCT News Blog under: Policy
On-going research led by Associate Professor Andreas Heinemeyer at York University into upland management systems is beginning to show that the results of earlier research based on pre- and immediately post-burning evidence are too simplified; and even wrong when it comes to judging the carbon consequences of managed burning.
6/2/2023 in: GWCT News Blog under: Policy
We have been waiting with increasing frustration for the publication of a draft Soil Health Action Plan for England (SHAPE) – a policy document that was promised in early 2021 during the debates over putting soil on the face of the Environment Bill (now Act).
26/1/2023 in: GWCT News Blog under: Policy , Farming
It will come as a welcome relief to the farming industry that Defra’s announcement on the 26th of January finally puts a significant amount of detail into the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) tier of the Environmental Land Management (ELM) scheme.
26/1/2023 in: GWCT News Blog under: GWCT Scotland , Policy
We provide an update on the Hunting with Dogs Bill, snaring, Avian influenza and the Wildlife Management (Grouse) Bill consultation.
10/1/2023 in: GWCT News Blog under: Policy , GWCT in the media
This Monday (9 January), the Petitions Committee debated a recent e-petition calling for a ban on the use of snares. Nick Fletcher, who brought the petition, gave a detailed account of how a humane cable restraint, pioneered by the GWCT, differs from a traditional snare.
9/1/2023 in: GWCT News Blog under: Policy
the Petitions Committee is set to debate ““Make the use of free-running snares illegal for trapping wildlife” on 9th January and the GWCT has briefed Nick Fletcher MP who will lead the debate as well as other MPs who might be involved.