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Written by Iona Laing, Education & Events Officer
Fingask Castle on Sunday 7 December was the setting for a great day of celebration for a select group of youngsters as they were awarded for their artistic talent. GWCT hosted our annual art competition which invites school aged pupils from ac...
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By Joe Stanley, Head of Sustainable Farming, the Allerton Project
2026 sees the GWCT’s Big Farmland Bird Count (BFBC) return to its spiritual home of the Allerton Project, the GWCT’s research and demonstration farm on the Leicestershire-Rutland border, where it was originally launched in 2014. Th...
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By Joe Stanley, Head of Sustainable Farming, the Allerton Project
2026 sees the GWCT’s Big Farmland Bird Count (BFBC) return to its spiritual home of the Allerton Project, the GWCT’s research and demonstration farm on the Leicestershire-Rutland border, where it was originally launched in 2014. Th...
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By Henrietta Appleton, Policy Officer (England)
How often do you read that policy must be science and evidence-led, and think that must be good, leading to the right conclusion? Sadly that is not always the case. Of course, it’s not always easy, and sometimes evidence is conflicting anyway but it...
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You can find out more about everything happening at The Scottish Game Fair and secure your tickets here.
All of us in Scotland are counting down the days until 4th July – and for different reasons to our friends in the USA! This year the Scottish Game fair at Scone Palace begins that day, runnin...
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By Holly Appleby, Species Recovery Project Assistant, Uplands Research
In northern England, black grouse breed on the moor fringe, where females, also known as greyhens, often nest in rushy pastures and rear their chicks in rough grazings and grassy habitats. Unlike red grouse, hens rear chicks w...
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The GWCT’s Allerton Project Training Team has been awarded the contract by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) to deliver the Government’s new Baseline Agricultural Training programme for its internal staff for the next four years.
The programme has one simple aim: t...
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By Mike Swan, Senior Advisor
Twenty or so years ago I struck up a slightly weird ‘friendship’ with a man who owned a few acres of woodland in Devon, where he lived in a yurt. He was not against shooting, and was positively enthusiastic about my passion for coastal wildfowling, but he hated the bi...
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By Alex Keeble, Game and Wildlife Advisor (Central England)
Often many shoots attempt to re-establish grey partridges through releasing. However, re-establishment efforts are prolonged, labour-intensive and expensive operations with no guarantee of success.
From our extensive research of the grey...
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Written by Dr Juliet Turner
In the previous piece, I explored how ant colonies resemble multicellular bodies. Here, I turn to my DPhil research, which investigated these ideas through comparative studies of social evolution.
My studies began around four years ago, as part of the Social Behaviour ...
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