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GWCT encourages those wishing to release gamebirds on to an SPA this year to apply for a licence from Natural England, regardless of whether the SPA is on Natural England’s list of SPAs likely to receive permission or not. GWCT has been told that the list does not prejudge Natural England’s decis...
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Many readers will be aware of the recent scrutiny facing grouse shooting. At the start of the year Wild Justice once again launched a petition calling for the ban of driven grouse shooting, and in May this petition gained the 100,000 signatures necessary for the topic to be debated by Parliament....
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By Henrietta Appleton, GWCT Policy Officer (England)
Wild bird populations continue to decline as demonstrated by Government statistics released on 12th November. We have used the graphs for breeding farmland, woodland, water and wetland and upland birds generated by these statistics many times ...
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The Last Keeper has been making waves across the globe, earning acclaim for its powerful narrative and stunning cinematography. Tackling the complex and often contentious issues surrounding land management in Scotland, the documentary has achieved remarkable success not just in sparking meaningf...
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Crashes in grouse populations in recent years have highlighted the need to better understand grouse population dynamics and the factors that currently influence these dramatic declines. The GWCT has carried out red grouse population and disease monitoring since the 1980s, which has led to a wealt...
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Written by Ross Macleod, Head of Policy (Scotland)
The Scottish Government’s Natural Environment Bill was introduced to Holyrood in February 2025 and is aimed at protecting Scotland’s natural environment. Stage 1 debate took place on 30th October, with MSPs broadly accepting the general principle...
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The winners of the inaugural Schöffel Countryside Awards have been crowned at a ceremony in central London – a celebration of private land managers, farms and partnerships whose dedication to wildlife management and conservation is helping to improve the health of the British countryside.
A panel...
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I’m Sam Rawlinson, one of the newly started graduate interns with the Uplands Research team, working in the North Pennines.
I studied biology (with a focus on evolutionary biology) at university and spent the last two years involved in outdoor education, largely teaching ecology fieldwork skills...
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Since the 1st April 2020 practitioners have been required by law to register with NatureScot in order to use Larsen Traps, Larsen Mate Traps, Larsen Pod Traps and multi-catch crow traps under the General Licences. Registrations were to last 5 years before reregistering was required. However, on t...
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The GWCT’s annual Game Conference is promising to deliver an excellent line-up of speakers and a day packed with insightful and informative talks.
This year’s event will take place on Tuesday 18 March at the Trust’s headquarters at Fordingbridge in the New Forest. Lunch will be provided and there...
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