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Allerton Project Shoot, Loddington
Work is underway to manage our woodlands so that they benefit game and wildlife. Thinning, ride widening, scalloping and glade creation will be our focus and with this will come regeneration of the understorey which is a favourite nesting place for migratory wa...
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By Ross Macleod, Head of Policy (Scotland)
So, the Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill has passed through Scottish Parliament, marking nearly seven years of scrutiny, originating with the implementation of the Werritty Grouse Management Review in 2017. The starting point, of course, ...
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While many spent their Bank Holiday relaxing with family, Dr Nick Hesford, a senior advisor for Scotland's Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT), set himself something more challenging. In under 48 hours, he hiked the 96-mile route along the West Highland Way to raise money for a local ch...
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By Hugo Straker, Scotland and Ireland Advisor
To optimise red grouse production to allow sustainable driven or walked-up shooting, upland keepers rely heavily on legal, humane predator control to achieve success. The deployment of significant numbers of lethal tunnel traps to control mustelids fo...
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Lesley Griffiths’ statement on the recent episode of BBC Countryfile (the piece starts at 10m 50s) that she would revisit the ban on snares in Wales, if curlew numbers continued to decline, leaves a glimmer of hope for the species.
However, the fact remains that in refusing to accept the amendme...
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By Rory Kennedy, Director Scotland, GWCT
Conservation is sometimes misunderstood as being all about wildlife. The reality is that conservation doesn’t operate in a vacuum, away from the human world. Pristine wilderness rarely needs our meddling, unless those very wildernesses are themselves threa...
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By Hugo Straker, Scotland and Ireland Advisor
To optimise red grouse production to allow sustainable driven or walked-up shooting, upland keepers rely heavily on legal, humane predator control to achieve success. The deployment of significant numbers of lethal tunnel traps to control mustelids fo...
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This case study is taken from our Real Wilders book, which you can download here or you can buy a print copy here.
Pine martens are driving one of Scotland’s most majestic native birds to extinction. Current conservation efforts are failing, and a new approach is needed before it’s too late.
Rec...
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Phone and video consultancy services
Due to Coronavirus restricting GWCT advisory staff from visiting clients at a critical time of year for planning and undertaking work on farms and shoots, we would like to take this opportunity to let you know about our remote assistance services.
While shoot...
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With the Guardian reporting declines in rabbit populations and the importance of intervention in their management, we thought it the ideal time to reflect on how they’re getting on our Scottish demonstration farm.
Managing a farm can often leave you thinking almost exclusively about what’s going...
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