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JM Osborne Rural and Sporting have been involved in shoots and shooting in one form or another since 1972 and have seen a massive change in that near 50 year period. From days when a bag of 100 brace of Grouse was deemed to be large, to the average full time Pheasant Keeper then looking after ma...
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Written by James Swyer, Director of Membership and Marketing
Wildlife crime needs to stop. The sixty-one confirmed incidents of the illegal killing of wildlife detailed in the RSPB Birdcrime report published today are crimes which we condemn in the strongest terms and those committing them shoul...
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By Teresa Dent CBE, GWCT Chief Executive
The recent call from RSPB to ‘stop burning the peat’ seems to deliberately confuse controlled and uncontrolled burning. Its press release makes 6 references to burning peat, peatland and blanket bog, all in connection with management practices and consents...
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Written by Nicholas Aebischer (Deputy Director of Research) and Henrietta Appleton, GWCT Policy Officer (England)
The debate over the conservation of hen harriers is one of the most controversial and polarised and as a consequence has been widely used in social science analyses of conservation c...
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By Rory Kennedy, GWCT Director Scotland
Scotland has long been the ideological fault line for many land-use debates. Hundreds of years of conflict in land ownership bubbles under the surface and is never far from the collective consciousness. Meanwhile new land ownership models are seeing large c...
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Below is an email we received from Defra regarding General Licences in England, they have asked us to share it with our members and supporters:
May we take this opportunity to remind you that licence users seeking to undertake lethal control of wild birds on or within 300 metres of a European sit...
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By Roger Draycott, Head of Advisory
The game management community, like all others, is reeling from the impacts of the coronavirus crisis. There is much uncertainty across the sector about the potential impacts on game shooting over the next 12 months. Of particular concern are what the prospects...
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Gamekeepers are being called upon to help create a more accurate national picture of resistance to rodenticides in rats and mice. In return, participants will get a free indication of their shoot's status from the Campaign for Responsible Rodenticide Use (CRRU) which is running the appeal.
This c...
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The government is developing the new Environmental Land Management Schemes and associated payments. An important feature of these schemes will be actions and payments to encourage active pollinator management.
Our project BEESPOKE, is developing bespoke wildflower mixes to deliver services to cr...
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The original blog we wrote has, not surprisingly, generated some comment, particularly with respect to the suggestion of a derogation on its use on kale in wild bird cover.
Our aim was always to provide a counterview to that being put forward by some NGOs and to provide some justifiable balance t...
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