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The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust Cymru welcomes the opportunity to respond to this petition. We believe that control of members of the crow family (corvids) is crucially important to the conservation of many wildlife species within Wales, and that the use of Larsen traps is a vital comp...
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A species in decline
Low breeding success
Pressures on breeding
Breeding curlew facts
What can I do?
A species in decline
The curlew we have in the UK is one of eight species found worldwide, two of which are already likely to be extinct. T...
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Moorlands are cultural landscapes extending back thousands of years and it is our management that creates and maintains them as moors. Like most land in the UK, management activity is driven by individuals or groups who own and use it for social and economic purposes. In the uplands, game managem...
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Ending grouse moor management risks declines and possible local extinctions of a range of ground-nesting bird species, a new study has revealed.
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The new research from the GWCT looks at the impact of stopping grouse management on wader species in the south west of Scotland.
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Key points
Blanket bogs are nationally important habitats that host a wide range of specialist species and are important for carbon capture and water storage.
Prescribed burning has historically been used to manage heather habitat in moorland environments but, after changes to regulations, heath...
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This guidance has been reviewed by Defra
It is incumbent on the shooting community to play its part in helping to reduce the spread and impact of current outbreak of Avian Influenza. This document has been jointly created by the organisations who make up Aim to Sustain to help all in the shooting...
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The Langholm Moor Demonstration Project was launched in September 2007 and work started in early 2008, running until 2018. The ten-year project aimed to reconcile grouse moor and raptor interests with the core objective of re-establishing Langholm Moor as a driven grouse moor while maintaining a ...
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