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Les shares his love for his family, Aston Villa and birdwatching
Is there such a thing as a typical day for you? If so, what's it like?
My typical day is spent on the road visiting my recruiters, attending events, planning my weeks, screening CVs and interviewing, with many hours a day being spen...
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Eggs for breakfast
By Dr. Jen Brewin, Science Writer
3 minute read
Two blogs from our Scottish Demonstration Farm at Auchnerran recently have reported this year’s unusually high rates of predation on lapwing nests by badgers. We don’t yet know whether this might have been driven by higher badger...
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The response of some conservation NGOs to the news that Defra has given emergency authorisation of a neonicotinoid seed treatment for sugar beet in 2021 has been scare-mongering and emotive. In our view Defra’s decision is proportionate – and here is why.
There is evidence that the widespread use...
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By Henrietta Appleton, GWCT Policy Officer
“In a city a fire put out is a problem solved; in the countryside a fire put out is a problem put off.”[1]
I recently wrote about how our APPG had achieved a collective outcome through getting the right people in the right place asking the right questio...
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This Monday (9 January), the Petitions Committee debated a recent e-petition calling for a ban on the use of snares. Nick Fletcher, who brought the petition, gave a detailed account of how a humane cable restraint, pioneered by the GWCT, differs from a traditional snare.
This point was driven ho...
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We have recently published Conserving Our Woodcock, a new guide which turns 50 years of GWCT woodcock research into practical guidance on how to provide the varied habitat woodcock require. This blog is taken from the guide, which you can download in full here.
The following management recommen...
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Photo Credit: Dennis Jacobsen
Rufus Sage explains the increased interest in gamebird releasing from ecologists and highlights new research.
Pheasants and red-legged partridges are species successfully introduced to the UK as wild breeding birds from Asia in around the 12th century and from south...
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The GWCT Scottish Game Fair is looking forward to welcoming GWCT members and visitors from all over the world to experience one of the most exciting, diverse and atmospheric celebrations of the countryside and conservation in the country from Friday 30th June to Sunday 2nd July.
Be sure to visit...
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By Alastair Leake, Director of Policy & Allerton Project
There’s a row broken out in the Garden of Eden. Apparently, we must cease our assiduous nurturing of our horticultural havens and allow nature to do a Brexit and “take back control”. Yes, you’ve guessed, the Rewilders have your lawns in...
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4 Minute Read - article originally appeard in GWCT Gamewise Magazine
Professor Chris Stoate, head of research, talks to Kate Williams about the impact of the GWCT’s research and demonstration farm and providing a blueprint for future rural landscapes.
This year marks three decades since the GWCT...
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