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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.
7/5/2020 in: GWCT News Blog under: Letters
Countryside Correspondent Harry Shukman failed to mention that the scientific paper he was referring to actually found that any pressure to illegally kill predators was both rare and resisted by gamekeepers.
27/4/2020 in: GWCT News Blog under: Letters
Footage has emerged of Bradford Council cutting heather on Baildon Moor at a time when nesting is at its peak.
2/4/2020 in: GWCT News Blog under: Letters
With many of us confined to our homes, much has been made of wildlife ‘returning’ to urban areas – mountain goats roaming the streets of Llandudno for example – but what of the British countryside they usually call home?
1/4/2020 in: GWCT News Blog under: Grey partridge , Letters
Last week, when the BBC Radio 4 show Short Cuts claimed that there were just 100 grey partridges left in the UK, we responded straight away.
26/3/2020 in: GWCT News Blog under: Letters , Grey partridge
While we welcome the BBC highlighting the decline of grey partridge in Britain sadly the reporters have their numbers all wrong.
18/3/2020 in: GWCT News Blog under: Letters
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.
31/1/2020 in: GWCT News Blog under: General Licences , Letters
29/1/2020 in: GWCT News Blog under: Letters
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