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Our fencing trial started in 2016. In 2015 and 2016, Curlew Country monitored over 30 nests, and no chicks fledged from any of them. Each year only three nests got beyond egg stage to hatch chicks.
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Curlew Country, which launches its webcam programme once again this week, has done an amazing job in getting boots on the ground – practical, hands-on working with farmers and land managers – to recover these much-loved birds that have almost disappeared from our countryside.
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On 1st April Lesley Griffiths the Minister for Environment, Energy and Rural Affairs published a press release stating that there are a series of emergency measures to support Welsh farmers during the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak.
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On 3 February Wild Justice – the campaign group founded by Chris Packham, Mark Avery and Ruth Tingay – escalated their challenge of the use of General Licences in Wales. The group instructed its solicitors to write to Natural Resources Wales (NRW), claiming that “the 2020 Replacement Licences are in effect licences to cull without limit” and that the licences are unlawful.
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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.
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