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23/8/2018 in: GWCT News Blog under: Hen harrier/Grouse shooting , Letters
We respond to a recent piece in The Telegraph on mountain hare declines.
14/8/2018 in: GWCT News Blog under: Hen harrier/Grouse shooting
Meeting at a nature reserve beside the Thames Estuary may sound a strange place to discuss our uplands but there is a link – both have peat underneath and at one time had trees on top.
8/8/2018 in: GWCT News Blog under: Hen harrier/Grouse shooting , Letters
It is bizarre that the RSPB should now suggest (Feathers fly over who to thank for saving hen harrier, Aug 6) that these successes have been achieved through nest protection alone.
6/7/2018 in: GWCT News Blog under: Letters , Hen harrier/Grouse shooting
In written evidence to a 2016 Parliamentary Committee, the RSPB stated that moorland drains were “cut in the 60s and 70s to improve grazing” for sheep. It is bizarre that they should now suggest that gamekeepers dug these drains for their grouse (RSPB accuses gamekeepers of deliberately drying land, July 5).
2/7/2018 in: GWCT News Blog under: Hen harrier/Grouse shooting , Letters
Our response to a recent piece in The Sunday Times concerning the Saddleworth Moor fire, in which RSPB Senior Uplands Policy Officer, Pat Thompson is quoted.
28/6/2018 in: GWCT News Blog under: Hen harrier/Grouse shooting , Letters
We respond to George Monbiot's accusation in The Guardian that grouse shooting is responsible for the Saddleworth Moor fire.
15/5/2018 in: GWCT News Blog under: Hen harrier/Grouse shooting
GWCT Chairman Ian Coghill discusses the RSPB's opposition to plans aimed at increasing Hen Harrier numbers in the English uplands.
3/5/2018 in: GWCT News Blog under: Hen harrier/Grouse shooting , Letters
We respond to a recent piece in the Yorkshire Post on Bradford Council’s decision to end grouse shooting on Ilkley Moor.
5/3/2018 in: GWCT News Blog under: Hen harrier/Grouse shooting , Letters
We respond to a recent piece written by George Monbiot for The Guardian about Britain's national parks.
2/2/2018 in: GWCT News Blog under: Hen harrier/Grouse shooting , GWCT Wales
Proposals for shooting over Natural Resources Wales (NRW) land have now been published. The GWCT believes their conclusions are well considered and should be adopted
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