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Welcome to our Autumn update for 2023. As the leaves change, we’re here to provide you with news of our teams’ summer endeavours, covering the events calendar, policy developments, and the latest advances in our ongoing research projects.
Policy Update
You can read an update from GWCT Scotland's...
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Natural England has now started issuing decisions in relation to applications for individual bird control licences for those circumstances which are not covered by the General Licences issued by Defra in January.
They have published this blog to update applicants on the progress of applications t...
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By Henrietta Appleton, GWCT Policy Officer (England)
As we enter the political conference season there will be more calls for a “right to nature” and increased rights of public access potentially increasing access beyond the current commitment in the Environmental Improvement Plan. But I wonder ...
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It is bizarre to read the proponents of rewilding calling for the end of a practice that has shaped our countryside for centuries (Queen under pressure to abandon grouse shooting on Royal estates, 6 February). Active management not only supports this internationally significant landscape, th...
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Wild Justice, the campaigning company led by Chris Packham, is now in such a muddle it has asked the GWCT for help.
The knot it has tied itself in started two years ago. Then it was criticising the General Licences used to control pest bird species to protect the nests of other bird species, far...
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4 Minute Read
Written by Mike Swan, GWCT Head of Education
With Defra due to undertake a call for evidence on the future of fox snares, there has never been a better moment to make the distinction between a modern humane cable restraint that meets international standards, and the cheap and nasty...
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The Chief Veterinary Officer for Wales has confirmed an outbreak of H5N8 Bird Flu (pathogenicity to be confirmed) on a gamebird establishment near Amlwch, Anglesey.
Control Zones of 3km and 10km around the infected premises have been established restricting all bird movements and all birds on the...
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By Mike Swan, GWCT Head of Education
6 minute read
Planting trees is very fashionable these days, and most people think it is good conservation practice. Aside from replacing what our ancestors felled, there is also a halo of virtue because of carbon capture and global warming. Like all such fas...
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By Henrietta Appleton, Policy Officer England
I recently read Jeff Knott’s blog on the RSPB website – “There’s something very special about the uplands” – and I couldn’t agree more with the title. But on reading the rest of the blog, I felt obliged to respond. Not to reinforce the ‘contested land...
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