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By Georgia Gargett, Scottish Lowlands Placement Student
With the colourful days of autumn behind us, we wrapped up our annual partridge surveys, worm counts and VESS assessments, and set our sights northward.
November brought us to the Scottish Demonstration Farm at Auchnerran, where we helped to...
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By Holly Appleby and Molly Brown, Uplands Research
Black grouse were once numerous and widespread in England, yet over the last 150 years, the population has become increasingly isolated due to low breeding success, habitat fragmentation and changes in landscape configuration. The remaining birds...
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Written by Fiona Torrance, Farmland Biodiversity Advisor and PepsiCo FAB project manager. Thanks to Alistair Green for processing the data.
The PepsiCo FAB (Farming Arable Biodiversity) project launched with ambitious goals. Building on the success of the Interreg PARTRIDGE project, we set out t...
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Hearing protection and clear communication are both essential on shoot day but these two objectives are not mutually exclusive, thanks to Icom UK radios and SWATCOM hearing protection.
Safety is a top priority in any game shooting scenario, but so is clear and reliable communication, especially w...
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Written by Fiona Torrance, Farmland Biodiversity Advisory GWCT Scotland and PepsiCo FAB Project Manager
One aim of the PepsiCo FAB project is to enhance communication between project participants. Over the course of the project, this has been done in a number of ways including regular updates, bu...
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For over a decade, the Farmer Cluster initiative, pioneered by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT), has transformed how conservation works on farmland.
Background
The idea is simple but powerful: neighbouring farmers come together to improve wildlife habitat at a landscape scale, s...
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By Mike Swan, Senior Advisor
One of the proudest moments of my career with the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust’s Advisory service was when my friends and clients Ian and Claire Smith of Nether Hale in Kent won the Purdey Awards for Game and Conservation in 2003. Four years earlier, with ju...
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Written by Leah Cloonan and Sam Rawlinson
In the spring of this year the Upland Research Team in northern England returned to a project that previously ran in 2022 and 2023. The project looks at the maternal condition of red grouse and which factors affect their subsequent breeding success. Red g...
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The GWCT carries out research on a number of shorebirds and waders. From studies of the migration routes of snipe, lapwing and curlew, to the monitoring of nesting habits of lapwing in wet meadows and arable fields, to developing new techniques to protect them from predators.
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By Sophie Jackson, Wildlife Recovery Placement Student
Few sights are as magical as a barn owl gliding over a field on a summer’s evening. With their heart-shaped faces, ghostly plumage and soundless flight, they have long been described as ethereal and mysterious. I’ve always found barn owls cap...
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