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Sir,
When it comes to researching the environmental impacts of game shooting, Britain leads the world. However, it’s bizarre that staff at the RSPB decided to use a review process that accentuates the negatives and minimises the positives in order to produce their doom-laden conclusions (News, Oc...
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Written by Dr Roger Draycott, Director of Advisory and Gamebird Policy
The RSPB’s position (‘Calls to ban gamebird release to avoid ‘catastrophic’ avian flu outbreak’, 10.02.2022) is not based on scientific evidence and the tone of Jeff Knott’s comments is alarmist. There is already a ban on rele...
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“My Lords, for biodiversity to be diverse and flourish in the UK, it needs habitat, species protection where appropriate, the provision of winter food for birds and animals and sensible predator control.” That was the opening remark by The Earl of Caithness last Thursday (22 April) as the Lords ...
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The National Gamekeepers Organisation recently visited GWCT HQ in Hampshire to talk to our Senior Advisor Mike Swan and Head of Predation Control Studies Mike Short about the use of humane cable restraints. Watch what they had to say here:
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If we are to reverse the ‘relentless’ wildlife declines we are witnessing, we need a fresh approach ('An alarmingly familiar picture': UK on course to miss most biodiversity targets, 16 October). Public sector spending on conservation is crucial but will never fulfil its potential without inspir...
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This beautifully produced collection of nine case studies features some of the UK’s most endangered and spectacular species including mountain hare, curlew, lapwing, golden eagle, merlin, black grouse, ring ouzel and more.
It aims to raise awareness of the huge contribution made by private land m...
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The GWCT categorically condemns the illegal killing of birds of prey (Mystery over fate of birds, 12 May). The few who perpetrate wildlife crime overshadow the many grouse moor managers who work tirelessly to create habitat where birds of prey can thrive. One such is head of the Pe...
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Our 2023 Christmas cards are selling quickly with all five new designs proving very popular and stocks beginning to run low. Order yours now:- Browsing Partridges by Rodger McPhail *Bestseller*- The Best Christmas Ever! by Loon- Woodcock at Dusk by Owen Williams- A Pair of Winter Grouse by Jason...
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The Uplands team are pleased to deliver some new research. Please see below abstracts from two of our published papers from this year. Get in touch if you would like a full copy of the paper by emailing uplands@gwct.org.uk.
Fletcher, K., & Baines, D. (2020). Observations of breeding and dispe...
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