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Written by Alastair Leake, Director of Policy & Allerton Project
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Photo: Snipps Whispers (CC BY-NC-ND)
The one thing Covid 19 has taught us well, is that prevention is better than cure, if indeed one is lucky enough to survive to be so. Preventative vaccination is the now main ...
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Every year, there is a day dedicated by the United Nations to raising awareness of the importance of biodiversity across the world. This is the International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB for short), which is held on 22nd May.
Each IDB aims to raise awareness surrounding a particular theme: t...
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Recent high-profile incidents of raptor poisonings have brought the gamekeeping sector’s use of rodenticides under increased scrutiny. Clearly, these incidents damage gamekeeping’s good name for managing and protecting the countryside, and jeopardise the continued use of rodenticides by gamekeep...
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By Henrietta Appleton, GWCT Policy Officer (England)
The use of snares to control foxes is a contentious issue. Animal lovers when confronted with images such as that below (source: National Anti Snaring Campaign (NASC) will quite rightly feel that it is an unsustainable practice a...
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Since the 1980s the GWCT has developed and run four highly successful and influential lowland wild game recovery demonstration projects. Integral to all these projects was the gamekeeping programme which was run by Malcolm Brockless. The first was on Salisbury Plain in the 1980s where we demonstr...
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Practical things to do in the coming weeks
After a season hampered by Covid restrictions, some shoots chose to improve their wild stock. Nesting habitat is a key requirement and can be enhanced by allowing grass margins against woods and hedgerows to grow and seed without grazing or cutting.
Bro...
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By Dave Parish, Head of Scottish Lowland Research
Breeding waders have always done very well at Auchnerran: the farm supports large populations – of national significance in some cases – and the birds usually produce more than enough young than are needed to maintain the local population.
The si...
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Allerton Project Shoot, Loddington
As spring marches on, our gamekeeper Matt Coupe has been continuing with our predator control programme as well as working on the creation of a new temporary pen to the southern side of the estate. This new pen will allow us to further reduce the ...
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Written by Matt Goodall, GWCT Wales Advisor
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Photo Credit: Laurie Campbell
Brown hares are naturalised but not strictly native to the UK. However, the Mad March Hare seems as part of the furniture as any other species in the British Countryside, leading to the debate of how long doe...
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By Henrietta Appleton, GWCT Policy Officer
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The lessons from America on wildfire suppression are real and urgent (Science Daily - Fire operations-prescribed burning combo reduces wildfire severity up to 72% 14 July 2021). There is a significant policy gap in the assertions made by t...
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