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By Felix Meister, D.Phil., Advisor Scotland
The GWCT Advisory Service Scotland delivered its last training courses of the year on Wednesday 4th December. Attendance at these courses has become a requirement under the Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Act 2024 for anyone wishing to opera...
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Written by Sue Evans, GWCT Policy Wales
As the UK Government announces a common-sense approach to environmental permitting in England, why is a common sense approach not being applied around the management of wildfires on moorland and to reversing biodiversity decline?
New common-sense approach t...
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GWCT Upland Game Conference 2025
This year’s Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) Upland Game Conference will take place in the heart of Teesdale, at The Witham in Barnard Castle, on Monday 17th February.
Previously known as the North of England Grouse Seminar, the event has been renamed...
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Written By Laura Williamson, Ecologist & Assistant Advisor
It is no secret that traditional land management practices face unprecedented pressure in today’s political climate. Likewise, it is widely known that bird populations face exceptional pressures, with some suggesting that more than 40...
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The winners of the inaugural Schöffel Countryside Awards have been crowned at a ceremony in central London – a celebration of private land managers, farms and partnerships whose dedication to wildlife management and conservation is helping to improve the health of the British countryside.
A panel...
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What are your first memories of the countryside?
Luckily I was born and brought up on the farm where I still live, in East Hertfordshire, so my very earliest memories are rural ones. I had two older brothers, but they were nearer in age to each other, so I sometimes ended up on my own during sch...
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By Henrietta Appleton, Policy Officer England
“Action [to prepare for wildfire] cannot be delayed further. To do so will lock in more damaging impacts and threaten the delivery of other key Government objectives, such as Net Zero.”Climate Change Committee Progress in adapting to climate change...
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GWCT encourages those wishing to release gamebirds on to an SPA this year to apply for a licence from Natural England, regardless of whether the SPA is on Natural England’s list of SPAs likely to receive permission or not. GWCT has been told that the list does not prejudge Natural England’s decis...
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Written by Henrietta Appleton, GWCT Policy Officer
For any fire to start and spread it needs fuel, oxygen and an ignition source. But when it comes to wildfires at a landscape scale there are additional factors such as the fire environment (weather, topography and fuel) and the fire regime (land...
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