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  • The Fox Appeal

    If we want to safeguard the benefits of good habitat and winter food, predation control can have an important role. Thanks to the help of our supporters, we have designed, tested and proven the effectiveness of practical tools such as the mink raft and breakaway fox snare, which are now commonpl...

  • 2018 winners

    Thursday 29 November saw budding wildlife artists from across Perth and Kinross come together to celebrate their great work with family and friends at the AK Bell Library in Perth. Overall Primary winner Prithvi Sudarshan’ (Longforgan Primary) painting of a pheasant. Pupils were asked to create a...

  • Is our food waste fuelling fox predation on breeding birds?

    Key points The New Forest is of great conservation significance. Despite this, populations of ground nesting birds are in decline. Foxes are generalist predators found throughout the UK. They can predate nests and so are linked to declines in native wildlife such as wading birds. Researchers stu...

  • How a new AI system is transforming conservation monitoring for efficient action

    Key points Monitoring curlew and other ground-nesting birds is essential for effective conservation efforts but previous methods have been time consuming and delay action. Researchers trained a new AI model called YOLOv10 by combining a pre-existing conservation AI database with nearly 39,000 im...

  • Parasitic worm commonly found in red grouse now found infecting wild black grouse in the Yorkshire Dales

    Key points Trichostrongylus tenuis is a parasitic worm long known to reduce body condition, survival, and breeding success in red grouse. This study provides the first strong evidence that the parasite is also widespread in wild black grouse in northern England: 63% of black grouse carcasses ex...

  • Meet the GWCT Wales Team

    Lee Oliver  Interim Director for WalesEmail: loliver@gwct.org.uk Born and brought up on the beautiful Llŷn Peninsula, North Wales, Lee is a first language Welsh speaker and comes from a farming community where his grandfather farmed sheep and beef. Lee lives with his family of three children and ...

  • Avian influenza Q&A

    This guidance has been reviewed by Defra It is incumbent on the shooting community to play its part in helping to reduce the spread and impact of current outbreak of Avian Influenza. This document has been jointly created by the organisations who make up Aim to Sustain to help all in the shooting...

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