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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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A severe outbreak of the disease Strongylosis in grey partridges in 1931 led Major HG Eley (a cartridge manufacturer employed by ICI) to establish the ICI Game Research Station at Knebworth in Hertfordshire. He gave a research grant to Doug Middleton at the Bureau of Animal Population at Oxford, ...
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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...
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Help us prove the true value of sustainable game management
Can you imagine a thriving countryside without the benefits of sustainable game management? Neither can we. Yet, unless we act now, that future is a real possibility.
Across the UK, shoots and land managers are under increasing pressur...
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Mistletoe
Poisonous, mythical and parasitical
Another year has passed, and this will be my 41st Species of the Month – how time flies! So, as this is the month of Christmas, I thought I would do something obvious. No, it is not a robin, it is mistletoe.
Mistletoe is a familiar Christmas staple, s...
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GWCT Premium Members are covered by an insurance policy arranged by Lycetts Insurance Brokers and automatically receive the following insurance package as soon as they join (full policy and schedule can be read here and here):
£10 million Public Liability Cover
£10 million Product Liability Cove...
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Our study on the Sussex Downs is the longest-running monitoring project in the world that measures the impact of changes in farming on the fauna and flora of arable land. It started in 1968 with an investigation into the causes of the decline in numbers of the grey partridge.
The Sussex Study cel...
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Claim
Verdict
Prescribed burning damages habitat and wildlife including mosses, birds, invertebrate and reptiles.
The claim is largely unsupported when muirburn is applied under best practice. Evidence shows that poorly managed or uncontrolled fires can harm peat-forming mos...
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