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Our precious heather moorland exists precisely because of thousands of years of active management, including the use of fire (Burning Britain’s moorland an environmental disaster like 'cutting down rainforest’, 30 March). Drastic changes to how our moors are managed risk unintended consequences ...
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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.
Baines, D., Newborn, D. & Richardson, M. (2019). Are Trichostrongylus...
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By Andrew Gilruth, GWCT Director of Communications
When it came to finding solutions to wildlife conflict, Scotland has been a world leader – until now. It was home to the most ambitious large-scale moorland raptor trials in the world. However, lessons learnt have not been developed and Scotland ...
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By James Swyer, GWCT Head of Press & Publications
“What is not clear is that banning driven grouse shooting would be good for the environment: in fact, I think that, on balance, it would be harmful”, said Tom Hunt, MP for Ipswich as he drew Monday’s Westminster Hall debate on t...
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By Leah Cloonan and Lucy Marsden, Uplands Team
A new fieldwork season has begun and along with it a new project, bringing new tasks. The maternal red grouse condition project commenced in March when 70 red grouse hens were caught from seven different study sites in Upper Teesdale, North Pennines....
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This case study is taken from our Real Wilders book, which you can download here or you can buy a print copy here.
When habitat and predation management ended, the Berwyn Hills fell silent, but with the right approach, birdlife can be restored.
With the advent of driven grouse shooting in the 19...
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James Mawle is passionate about the red-listed black grouse. In 1998 there were only 773 males left in England, but thanks to a conservation project involving land managers on a landscape-scale and joint-led by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust, the decline was reversed. The male birds' ...
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By Jodie Case, Predation Research Assistant
In conservation management, Professor John Lawton advised conservation efforts should be ‘bigger, better and more joined up’, and that is exactly what is needed when it comes to American Mink control in the UK.
Since the 1960s, the invasive, non-native ...
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By Henrietta Appleton, Policy Officer (England)
Whether or not to fund the management of species to protect another was the subject of a keen debate in the House of Lords on Thursday 25 January.
The debate, titled ‘Sustainable Farming Incentive: Species Management and ELMS’ was tabled by the Earl...
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By Roger Draycott, GWCT Head of Advisory Services
The GWCT are reminding all farmers, land managers and gamekeepers of important changes to licensing arrangements for pest control in England which came into effect on 1st January.
Defra has published all the details of the three new general licen...
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