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By Felix Meister, D.Phil., Advisor Scotland
In March and early April, GWCT staff commenced the 2025 red grouse monitoring season by carrying out pair counts across Scotland. Pair counts aim to determine the number of pairs going into the breeding season. The current monitoring regime extends over...
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Many readers will be aware of the recent scrutiny facing grouse shooting. At the start of the year Wild Justice once again launched a petition calling for the ban of driven grouse shooting, and in May this petition gained the 100,000 signatures necessary for the topic to be debated by Parliament....
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By Hannah Buckley, Predation Control Studies Placement Student
When I first decided to take part in a placement year back in my first year of university, I spent hours scrolling through the list of available roles. I read countless descriptions, but nothing felt quite right – until I came across ...
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Written by Henrietta Appleton, GWCT Policy Officer (England)
Over the course of a series of blogs this year I will be considering the current science on peatland management and restoration with a view to challenging some of the ‘accepted truths’. These are limiting our ability to adapt our approa...
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By Henrietta Appleton, GWCT Policy Officer (England)
Wild bird populations continue to decline as demonstrated by Government statistics released on 12th November. We have used the graphs for breeding farmland, woodland, water and wetland and upland birds generated by these statistics many times ...
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The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust’s (GWCT) Allerton Project is partnering with the Environmental Farmers Group (EFG) to create a Knowledge Hub to serve as a resource for farmers looking to enhance their understanding of natural capital markets, sustainable land management, and the lates...
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By Holly Appleby, Sam Rawlinson and Molly Brown, Uplands Research
The GWCT Uplands Research team received funding from Natural England’s East of Eden Nature Recovery Project to investigate whether new native woodlands can benefit black grouse whilst minimising negative impacts on breeding waders....
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As the UK’s leading wildlife research charity, GWCT has consistently encouraged the shooting community to move from lead ammunition to alternatives on the basis that the scientific evidence shows it has a toxic effect on wildlife. In 2019, the Trust joined other organisations in calling on the se...
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Crashes in grouse populations in recent years have highlighted the need to better understand grouse population dynamics and the factors that currently influence these dramatic declines. The GWCT has carried out red grouse population and disease monitoring since the 1980s, which has led to a wealt...
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Written by Kathy Fletcher, Phil Warren, Felix Meister and Henrietta Appleton
What the grouse counts tell us about this season’s prospects
In July and August, GWCT staff and their pointing dogs revisited study sites across the North of England and Scotland to count red grouse. After the pair count...
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