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A couple of Nether Hale hares getting ready to box. Credit: Russell Miles
By Mike Swan, GWCT Senior Advisor
If you are an older GWCT member, that title might just ring bells; it was already a long-term slogan of what was then The Game Conservancy Trust’s advisory service when I joined the team in...
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By Ross Macleod, Head of Policy (Scotland)
If we hoped for some respite from the weight of policy consultations, bills and legislation that confronted us in 2023, the barrage has continued unabated so far this year. Current activity extends across Managing Deer for Climate and Nature, an upcoming...
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Written by Mike Short, Predator Ecologist
Daybreak, on a dank morning in mid-April last year. Peering through my binoculars, I scanned the raised bank of a ditch along the edge of a wet meadow by the River Avon where three pairs of lapwings were nesting. I could see an untagged fox pacing aroun...
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By Roger Draycott, GWCT Head of Advisory Services
Over the next few weeks Defra will be consulting with stakeholders about their plans for licensing gamebird releasing on or near protected sites in 2021. This follows Defra’s review which concluded that any negative effects of gamebird releases o...
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Our Head of Fisheries Dylan Roberts looks at the reintroduction of beavers into the British countryside and the consequences for the existing wildlife
There has been much media coverage about the reintroduction of Eurasian beavers into the countryside, but are they clever engineers whose dams be...
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by Mike Swan, GWCT Head of Education
5 minute read
Many times in my role as a GWCT adviser, I have been asked by people who want to start a new shoot about where to put a pheasant pen on a bare farm with perhaps just one small wood. My response is that we need to think about the potential of the...
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3 Minute Read
By Jodie Case, Predation Research Assistant
Open Farm Sunday, managed by LEAF (Linking Environment and Farming), has been running annually since 2006, providing opportunity for farmers to share their fabulous work with all ages, by opening their farms to the general-public, and show...
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By Max Wright, Research Assistant, GWSDF Auchnerran
Whilst in the UK rabbits are widely considered pets, within rural communities they are more often than not regarded as pests. Moreover, there is some evidence to suggest they are not actually native to the UK, with the Romans perhaps responsible...
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As I mentioned in Part 1 of this series of blogs, working as a research assistant at the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) gives me the opportunity to work on some incredibly exciting research. In early 2022 I joined the Trust’s Predation Control Studies team, where I am learning new sk...
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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 GWCT advises all those who wi...
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