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As our name indicates, we conduct a large amount of research on non-game/quarry species. This work goes back to our research on farmland when we noticed how butterflies and rare arab...
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Indications from current climate change predictions are that wildfire incidents will occur more frequently. Policies relevant to the wildfire threat must recognise that the risk and scale of damage is affected by a complex mixture of physical and human factors, which vary in different parts of th...
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Brent goose
Late autumn heralds the arrival of many species of wintering birds to UK shores, including our smallest migratory goose, the brent goose (Branta bernicla).
Some 100,000 brents will spend the milder winter here. Weighing little more than a bag of sugar and no bigger than a mallard, the...
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Contents
The current situation
The legal background
Last updated 14 June 2019
The current situation
Q: Has the law just changed?A: No. The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 remains unchanged.
Q: So what has changed?A: Faced with a legal challenge, Natural England withdrew three General Licences...
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Key points
Tagging is a very important technique for studying many aspects of wildlife biology and is widely used.
It is important to monitor any effect that the tagging process has on the animal.
This study compared two groups of juvenile salmon (smolts): an ‘experimental’ group that were captu...
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The public aren’t being told about the vital work being done in the British countryside. You can change that today.
You don’t hear much about the good work done by farmers and land managers. How many people in our towns and cities know about the conservation work being done on farms every single...
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The LIFE-funded LaserFence project, led by Liverpool John Moores University, started in September 2016 with the aim of testing a modified bird-scaring laser device on mammalian pests. The original device, developed by Bird Control Group in the Netherlands, works simply by projecting a small green...
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Hundreds of different invertebrate species live within cropped fields, but fortunately, few ever become pests because they are killed by other invertebrates, their natural enemies. However, insecticides are toxic to most arthropods including the natural enemies and insects important as bird food....
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The LIFE-funded LaserFence project, led by Liverpool John Moores University, started in September 2016 with the aim of testing a modified bird-scaring laser device on mammalian pests. The original device, developed by Bird Control Group in the Netherlands, works simply by projecting a small green...
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