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25/3/2019 in: GWCT News Blog under: Hen harrier/Grouse shooting , Letters
19/3/2019 in: GWCT News Blog under: Hen harrier/Grouse shooting
A new paper underlines the importance of unlocking the conflict that has driven the illegal killing of harriers, a point first made by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust in 1998.
15/3/2019 in: GWCT News Blog under: Hen harrier/Grouse shooting
Last year the RSPB asked the High Court to clarify if Natural England’s decision to issue a licence to trial hen harrier brood management was lawful. On Friday 15 March Mrs Justice Lang DBE provided that reassurance.
The High Court in London has issued the result of a judicial review into Natural England’s decision to grant a licence to allow brood management of hen harriers.
14/3/2019 in: GWCT News Blog under: Hen harrier/Grouse shooting , Letters
Isla Hodgson is absolutely right to say that efforts to resolve the conflict between hen harriers and grouse moors have so far focused on two areas: diversionary feeding and legislation.
13/3/2019 in: GWCT News Blog under: Hen harrier/Grouse shooting , Letters
Carefully managing broods of harriers to unlock this proven conflict is eminently sensible and one of the reasons why it has been used around the world for a range of other species.
12/12/2018 in: GWCT News Blog under: GWCT Scotland , Letters , Hen harrier/Grouse shooting
It's bizarre that anyone should feel ploughing up our heather moorlands is great idea (Grouse shooting is ‘least effective’ use of Scotland's land, December 10).
10/12/2018 in: GWCT News Blog under: Letters , Hen harrier/Grouse shooting
7/12/2018 in: GWCT News Blog under: Hen harrier/Grouse shooting
Government has implemented a hen harrier recovery plan that does address the conflict in England. Ironically, the RSPB is taking the Government to court this week to try and prevent plans to recover a species they claim to champion.
7/11/2018 in: GWCT News Blog under: Hen harrier/Grouse shooting , Letters
We respond to a recent piece in The Telegraph discussing Chris Packham's latest attack on grouse shooting.
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