GWCT News Blog

The Times is absolutely right to sound off a further warning shot about the prospects for upland farms and farms on marginal ground in the UK should they have neither subsidy or a ready export market in Europe.

We respond to RSPCA claims that despite meeting international standards, snares are inhumane.

We respond to a piece in The Times that discusses approaches to conservation in the aftermath of Brexit.

Andrew Gilruth corrects The Guardian, who wrongly claim that the plan has collapsed since the RSPB withdrew.

You may have seen Andrew Gilruth’s letter published in The Times on Thursday, 15 September 2016.

We respond to a recent piece in The Guardian criticising Natural England for issuing a licence to control ten buzzards.

Read our letter to The Times in response to Matt Ridley's recent piece on the misuse of science.

We respond to a recent piece in The Telegraph on the RSPB's decision to build a 100 metre wind turbine at its headquarters.

Since conservationists agree that farmers and landowners offer homes to the majority of our wildlife it would be bizarre for any conservation plan not to also explicitly include a commitment to a thriving rural economy. 

We respond to a recent piece in The Independent concerning the use of lead ammunition.