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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.
20/11/2019 in: GWCT News Blog under: Letters , Hen harrier/Grouse shooting
15/11/2019 in: GWCT News Blog under: Hen harrier/Grouse shooting , Letters
9/8/2019 in: GWCT News Blog under: Hen harrier/Grouse shooting
Watch this short video of GWCT Director of Communications Andrew Gilruth providing an update on hen harrier numbers in 2019
7/6/2019 in: GWCT News Blog under: Letters , Hen harrier/Grouse shooting
Patrick Barkham is wrong to claim that the management of hen harrier broods is “to placate grouse moor owners”.
6/6/2019 in: GWCT News Blog under: Hen harrier/Grouse shooting
Natural England have announced that it is set to undergo the first hen harrier brood management trial, following the conditions of the licence being met. We welcome this news and hope it can deliver a positive outcome for hen harrier recovery.
13/5/2019 in: GWCT News Blog under: Letters , Hen harrier/Grouse shooting
We respond to a recent piece in The Spectator claiming that grouse moors would benefit from rewilding.
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