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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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By Dave Parish, GWCT Head of Scottish Lowland Research
The plight of waders breeding in the UK is well known. All of our familiar species are in serious decline and we hear frequent warnings about local extinctions for some of them. Undoubtedly the prime causes of decline are a loss of quality ha...
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By Liam Thompson, Uplands Research Assistant
One of the first tasks when I started my role as Uplands Research Assistant was to investigate if there was a relationship between the start time of a transect and the number of sightings of meadow pipit, the most common insectivorous moorland bird and...
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By Owen Williams, GWCT Wales Chair
Driven by the dual reality of the climate and nature crisis, policy discussions on land management have rightly intensified over recent years. Triggered by the sight of burning on our managed uplands, but with little knowledge of the science, lobbyists and their...
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Defra is currently reviewing the General Licensing system that operates in England. Earlier this year the GWCT submitted our review of the scientific evidence base of the effects of controlling certain common predatory and pest bird species under the General licences on the breeding success of a...
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Some research we carried out within the Water Friendly Farming project in 2017 has just been published in the Journal of Environmental Management. We use a herbicide that is used to control black-grass in arable crops as an initial focus for exploring broad catchment management issues with farme...
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By Ellie Jackson-Smith, Farmland Ecology Intern
On the evening of Wednesday 26 February, we hosted 15 Cub Scouts from 1st Sandleheath Sea Scouts for an interactive demonstration of the research we carry out. The evening worked towards their Nature Badge and was run to coincide with World Wildlife...
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Important note
Lockdown regulations apply throughout England from Thursday 5 November until Wednesday 2 December inclusive. This means that we expect shooting in groups, including organised game shooting, to be able to resume from Thursday 3 December subject to local and regional restrictions.
Wh...
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By Andrew Gilruth, GWCT Membership & Communications Director
The muddled campaigning company, led by Chris Packham, has got itself so confused it asked the GWCT for help last week. However, it swiftly changed its mind after we recommended in this blog that it should start following the scien...
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Dr Roger Draycott explains why it is important that guns become 'conscientious consumers' and find out what the shoot they are considering buying a day at is doing for wildlife.
When buying a day’s shooting, more often than not the gun or team of guns will choose the day based on two key factors:...
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