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Nature can provide a multitude of hidden benefits to humans such as control of crop pests by their natural enemies, crop pollination and prevention of soil erosion that keeps rivers clean. These are known as ecosystem services and are worth billions of euros every year in each European country.
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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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This EU Habitat Action Plan was published by the European Commission in 2020. It provides guidance to maintain and restore European dry heaths to a favourable conservation status. Dry heaths are wide open landscapes, typically occurring on free-draining soil that has a relatively low nutrient con...
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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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All the money raised from the Scottish Auction funds our vital research, education and policy work in Scotland. A breakdown of how your money is used is shown below:
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Janine Stikeleather Administrator
Olivia Miller Placement Student
Ruby Harmer Placement Student
Dyfan Jenkins Shepherd
Scott Newey Head of Uplands Research
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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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The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust charitable objects are:
To promote for the public benefit, the conservation of game and its associated flora and fauna.
To conduct research into game and wildlife management (including the use of game animals as a natural resource) and the effects of f...
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The Trust carries out research with a wide range of organisations. We would like to thank these organisations for their assistance with this research and their co-operation with wildlife conservation.
Below is a list of these organisations with links to their sites.
Atlantic Salmon Trust
The Bri...
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