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The 2023 GWCT/BTO British Woodcock Survey showed the highest coverage to date, with the woodcock population at its lowest level, mainly due to significant losses in northern Scotland.
Northern Scotland saw the biggest declines, while northern England experienced population growth, and...
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Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust has a vision for a thriving countryside rich in game and other wildlife. Using its experience and reputation built over almost 100 years of working with people in the countryside, the GWCT is committed to developin...
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We are delighted that the 33rd GWCT Scottish Game Fair, with Headline Sponsor NFU Mutual, the leading rural insurer, returns to stunning Scone Parklands over the weekend of 1-3 July 2022
As always, the fair will feature an impressive line-up of traders, competitions and main ring events plus coun...
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Badger numbers have increased in recent years, raising concern about their impact on ground-nesting birds.
Although badgers mainly feed on earthworms, cold and dry conditions can reduce worm availability and prompt them to take alternative prey.
This study examined how weather and hab...
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Tunnel trapping describes the use of spring traps (kill traps) to catch small mammalian predators and pests. Under the Pest Act 1954, the only kill traps allowed are those approved by the appropriate Ministry (currently Defra) and listed in statutes (Spring Trap Approval Orders). Trap approval ge...
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Capercaillie are a red-listed species found in old pine forests in Scotland, with populations declining since the 1970s despite efforts to help them.
National surveys are completed every six years, but annual lek and brood counts may be able to produce robust population estimates in t...
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Skylark
A well-known species in literature, poetry, art and music, the skylark hardly needs an introduction. Best known for its display flight, vertically up in the air.
It is that time of year when the Walled Garden, where Research and Advisory is stationed at GWCT HQ, falls a little quiet, as b...
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These days farmers face many pressures including producing more food sustainably, and using more natural ways of controlling pests now key insecticides have been banned. Planting wildflower margins can help; they can support pollinators and pest natural enemies, sequest carbon, and brighten up th...
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Contents
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Introduction
Why use rafts?
Building a GWCT Mink Raft
Traps suitable for use with rafts
Deployment and maintenance
Identifying mink tracks
Dispatching a live-caught mink
Record keeping and responsibilities
FAQs
Suppliers
The GWCT Mink Raft was...
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New tracking technologies have given researchers clearer insight into sea trout smolt survival during their outward migration and adult behaviour whilst at sea.
Using acoustic tags and data storage tags, scientists tracked hundreds of sea trout in three rivers and their estuaries that...
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