GWCT News Blog

The GWCT Wales team are in regular contact with Natural Resources Wales (NRW), providing scientific evidence and discussing the practicalities of the General Licence situation. We are asking our members and others to submit their own examples of jackdaw and rook predation and rook and woodpigeon crop damage to us.

One of the replacement General Licences, issued by Natural England in April to protect livestock, is facing a potential legal challenge (General Licence WML - GL26).

Dr. Jonathan Reynolds, GWCT Head of Predation Control Studies, discusses the issue of evidence for General Licences going forward.

You can now download a copy of the GWCT's written evidence submission to the 2019 Defra consultation into General Licences.

Roy Burrows, Land Manager at Summerstone Estate, highlights the impact that General Licence changes are having on ground-nesting birds.

Following the licences changes, GWCT Head of Advisory Dr. Roger Draycott outlines what farmers, gamekeepers and reserve wardens can do now to protect ground nesting birds.