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Real Wild Pheasants

Releasing pheasants at Rotherfield

Pheasants and ticks: our letter in The Courier

RSPB “rigorously neutral” on pheasants? A blog by Sir Jim Paice, GWCT Chairman

Pheasants could suffer painful death following activists’ acts: Our letter to The Times

Highlight the benefits of your shoot with a Shoot Biodiversity Assessment

By Alex Keeble, Game & Wildlife Advisor The GWCT has demonstrated through many years of research that good game management can lead to significant benefits to wildlife. Woodlands managed for pheasants tend to support more songbirds and butterflies than non-shooting woods; this is because game...

Summary of Game 25

Scientific research, practitioner evidence and environmental accreditation are essential for sustainable game management -- the take home message from GWCT’s lowland gamebird conference. GWCT chairman Sir Jim Paice introduced the conference by saying that while there are currently no indications ...

Predation Control: Can closed seasons work?

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...