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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...
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Written by Henrietta Appleton, GWCT Policy Officer
It is with some frustration that I read the news reports on the recent spate of wildfires across the country.
Whilst increasing awareness of the consequences of a wildfire on the landscape and the wildlife it supports (as well as carbon emissions...
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Dear Editor,
Regarding your article on the decline of the wild Atlantic Salmon on the 15 October.
As someone who has worked to research and conserve wild Atlantic salmon for over 30 years, I am enraged, that both national and international governments have allowed our rivers to deteriorate into s...
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By Alastair Leake Director of Policy and the Allerton Project.
There’s a lot of talk about the closure of the Sustainable Farming Incentive scheme. The SFI has not ended. Because the scheme was so good farmers have piled into it enthusiastically and all the money is now committed.
It is good news...
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By Henrietta Appleton, GWCT Policy Officer
A couple of weeks ago I (and my colleagues Eleanor and Sally) had the pleasure of being part of a Moorland Matters event. These informal get togethers of those with an interest in our uplands are a great way to experience moorland wildlife and to learn t...
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Written by Alastair Leake, Director of Policy and The Allerton Project
Just last month I was admiring the display of Cowslips in one of our field margins. These were not sown here by us but have rejuvenated themselves from the seedbank from the days long ago when this field was grazed pasture. T...
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Dr Rufus Sage head of lowland game research and Dr Andrew Hoodless director GWCT research
In the late 1990s GWCT worked with researchers at the University of Oxford to investigate the potential for pheasants to harbour Ixodes ricinus ticks and to contract and transmit from and to those ticks, var...
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