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Written By Laura Williamson, Ecologist & Assistant Advisor
It is no secret that traditional land management practices face unprecedented pressure in today’s political climate. Likewise, it is widely known that bird populations face exceptional pressures, with some suggesting that more than 40...
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By Henrietta Appleton, Policy Officer England
“Action [to prepare for wildfire] cannot be delayed further. To do so will lock in more damaging impacts and threaten the delivery of other key Government objectives, such as Net Zero.”Climate Change Committee Progress in adapting to climate change...
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What are your first memories of the countryside?
Luckily I was born and brought up on the farm where I still live, in East Hertfordshire, so my very earliest memories are rural ones. I had two older brothers, but they were nearer in age to each other, so I sometimes ended up on my own during sch...
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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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Written by Henrietta Appleton, GWCT Policy Officer
For any fire to start and spread it needs fuel, oxygen and an ignition source. But when it comes to wildfires at a landscape scale there are additional factors such as the fire environment (weather, topography and fuel) and the fire regime (land...
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This is a sponsored blog post from a GWCT Partner
We are delighted to say that Stile is growing, and we will be adding new features very soon, including video options, improving the location filter and adding in a Q&A post to help share knowledge and increase the community feel.
If you haven’...
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By Alex Keeble, Central England Game & Wildlife Advisor
The Allerton Project, established in 1992, is a research and demonstration farm managed by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust at Loddington, Leicestershire and covers approximately 320 hectares. The farm at Loddington was a beque...
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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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By Alex Keeble, Central England Game & Wildlife Advisor
Game cover crops this year have been a nightmare to establish and although some parts of the country have had some rain, many are continuing to struggle. Our AB9 Winter bird seed stewardship mixes at The Allerton Project are based on two...
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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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