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It is interesting that the JNCC recently tweeted about its Eastern Mournes Wildfire Project in Northern Ireland (see here) in the context of COP26 and the role of nature-based solutions in the fight against climate change.
Firstly, because the project uses prescribed burning to reduce wildfire r...
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Dear Sir,
It is indeed sad that the iconic purring call of the turtle dove in summer is now a rarity (Turtle dove numbers plummet 98% to just 2,100 pairs, national survey shows), but the efforts of a group of farmers and land managers in southern England is giving real cause for hope. Counts have...
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We’re once again running our popular three-day course for part-time gamekeepers at the GWCT Allerton Project in Leicestershire from 26 to 28 September.
This long established course has been running for over 40 years and covers just about every aspect of running a part-time keepered shoot includi...
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Feed during and after the shooting season.
Set excluders around your feeder to reduce visits by deer and badgers.
If you cannot control rats, place your feeders in open fields, far from hedgerow cover.
Change the location of your feeders regularly: birds will find them quickly and you will preve...
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Norfolk gamekeeper Steven Musk CREDIT: Jason Bye for The Telegraph
While there is no doubt the impact of gamebird releasing on the spread of avian flu must be carefully assessed and monitoring ongoing (Gamekeepers facing ruin over avian flu rules, 28 June), it must be weighed against the conside...
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Starting 18th September, farmers can enroll in the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI), as per the recent announcement by Defra.
To facilitate this process, the Rural Payments Agency is initiating pre-registration which aims to equip farmers with essential information, such as digital maps and la...
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By Mike Short, Head of Predation Management Research
Lowland wet grasslands, such as the meadows within the Avon Valley in Hampshire, are important for breeding waders, and there has been a long-history of agri-environment payments to landowners to provide suitable habitat for them. However, unti...
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By Amber Hopgood, Science Writer
In the wake of COP26, climate change is something many of us are thinking about – and rightly so. Following COP21 in 2015, 195 nations adopted the Paris Climate Agreement and committed to try to keep the global average temperature no more than 2°C warmer than pre-...
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4 Minute Read
With the advent of the £5 poult around the corner, Richard Leach of UK game feed manufacturer Keepers Choice, looks at what’s behind the price hike and what it means for the sector.
With pheasant poults set to cost up to £4.50 this year – and possibly more – and inflation predicted...
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Written by Mike Swan, GWCT Senior Advisor
In early 2020, when our various organisations announced a joint plan to phase out the use of lead in live quarry shooting, no one could possibly have known about the glitches that would get in the way. Five years seemed like a sensible target, but no one ...
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