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The GWCT welcomes the UK Climate Change Committee’s 2023 report and its acknowledgement that the risk of wildfire will increase significantly in future decades. The report states: “The events of the last year [2022 saw the highest annual number of wildfires (greater than 30 hectares) ever recorde...
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While many of Britain’s nature reserves were closed through lockdown, conservation work continued on private land across Britain. Despite that, the men and women working hard to make our much-loved moorland thrive are often overlooked. Their previously untold stories are celebrated in a new publ...
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Environment minister Mark Spencer MP, Shadow DEFRA Minister Daniel Zeichner MP, and Baroness Bakewell, Lib Dem Environment spokesperson, were among MPs and policy makers who met moorland managers at the Palace of Westminster recently (23 March 2023) for the launch of Real Wilders, the GWCT’s new...
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Guidance to support land managers and ornithologists
Includes advice to reduce the spread of avian influenza and protect public health and the environment
Defra and the Welsh Government have today set out practical guidance to support land managers, the public and ornithological and environme...
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Defra has today issued the following release:
Mandatory housing measures will be lifted from 00:01 on Tuesday 18 April
Bird flu risk levels reduced
Scrupulous standards of biosecurity remain essential as the risk of avian influenza continues
Mandatory housing measures for poultry and captive...
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The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) Advisory Services in Scotland has launched a new Muirburn Advisory Service.
Muirburn, a long-established land management and conservation tool for heather, gorse and grass, is regulated under the Hill Farming Act 1946, the Nature Conservation (Sco...
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In spite of repeated attempts by GWCT Cymru to present clear scientific evidence to the minister, amendments to the Agriculture (Wales) Bill to allow the licensed use of Humane Cable Restraints (HCRs) to protect breeding curlew were rejected in a debate in the Welsh Parliament on 16 May.
Matt Goo...
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A new study by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) has concluded that a simple field-based monitoring system, run by farmers, could help reduce the use of insecticide spraying to tackle barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV) in cereal crops following the 2019 ban on neonicot...
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The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) has published the 2020 annual report for the Game & Wildlife Scottish Demonstration Farm at Auchnerran on Deeside and, despite the pandemic impacting on research and demonstration activity, the farming operation performed well over the year.
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