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Defra has announced that six general licences for the control of wild birds will be reissued on a temporary basis ahead of new licences coming into force on 1 January 2021.
The current licences GL26, GL28, GL31, GL34, GL35 and GL36 will be reissued from 1 August to 31 December. No action is requ...
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Defra has published updated General Licences for wild bird control in England effective from 1st January 2022 until 31st December 2023.
The licences GL40, GL41 and GL42 are very similar to the 2021 licences with only very minor, but helpful, changes.
GWCT’s Director of Advisory Roger Draycott com...
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The Scottish Government is seeking views via a consultation on proposals to strengthen the law relating to the use of dogs to hunt and flush foxes and other wild mammals in Scotland. The proposals include the possibility of implementing a licence scheme to hunt and flush with more than two dogs....
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In the March issue of BBC Wildlife, Ben Hoare claims that ‘controversial culls of mountain hares in the Scotland Highlands … have led to drastic population declines’. The evidence to support this claim is inconclusive. In fact, recent studies show not only that there are stable numbers of hares, ...
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Written by Jonathan Reynolds, Head of Predation Control Studies as part of a two-part series. Read part two here.
Part one - The thought process
This week sees the publication of a very important paper by GWCT scientists, one that has been a long time in the making. First author Tom Porteus worke...
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By Mike Swan, Head of Education
Update: We have new advice for those in England following the changes made on 13 May.
The GWCT is fielding increasing numbers of calls from gamekeepers, and especially part-time amateurs, as to whether they should carry on their duties during the current coronaviru...
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Another year of “stubbornly static”, and in some cases rising, rodenticide residues in barn owls has prompted an uncomfortable question about the use of poison baits: could irresponsible practices by a delinquent minority restrict future pest control options for the responsible majority?
This ap...
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Dear sir,
The success of the RSPB and NatureScot’s Lottery-funded project to eradicate stoats on Orkney is good news for threatened ground nesting birds on the islands, including breeding curlew. However, this success makes the policy of no predator control on the RSPB’s Abernethy Reserve even mo...
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In readiness for all anticoagulant rodenticide purchases being restricted July onwards to their use inside and around buildings only, the latest UK Rodenticide Stewardship annual report includes for the first time an explanation specific to rodent pest control of what constitutes a ‘building’.
S...
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The GWCT’s Head of Education and Advisor for Wales and Northwest England, Matt Goodall, was invited on Jeremy Vine’s BBC Radio 2 show on 17 October to explain why the ban on all types of snare in Wales could be bad news for wildlife in the country. He was up against Shahinoor Alom, League Against...
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