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By Henrietta Appleton, GWCT Policy Officer
In August this year GWCT chief executive Teresa Dent wrote a letter to Greenpeace’s Interim Executive Director in response to its petition calling for a complete ban on controlled burning in the uplands.
We received a reply outlining Greenpeace’s positi...
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Mark Glover’s view that gamebird releasing causes environmental carnage, “Slaughter of UK’s imported gamebirds carries a heavy price, 22 July”, is not supported by the scientific evidence.
He cites Stephen Harris’ report for the Labour Animal Welfare Society as proof that the release of pheasants...
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The Scottish Government has announced that it intends to bring forward amendments to the Wildlife Management and Muirburn Bill to ban the use of snares in Scotland.
We are naturally very disappointed with the announcement to ban all snares, including the AIHTS-approved humane cable restraints (H...
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Our letter to The Guardian in response to Illegal bird of prey killings fall to lowest level in decade, but ‘true figure may be far higher’
The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) utterly condemns wildlife crime. There is no excuse for illegal activity, and it is depressing that the cr...
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Image: Chris Conroy
A new paper entitled “Using Food Webs and Metabolic Theory to Monitor, Model, and Manage Atlantic Salmon—A Keystone Species Under Threat“ provides an insightful exploration of how we might combine data and theory to develop new modelling approaches to predict and mana...
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The SAlmonid MAnagement Round the CHannel (SAMARCH) project, set out to deliver new information to improve the protection of our threatened wild salmon and sea trout in estuaries and coastal waters, started in 2017 and now holds its closing conference on the 14th and 15th of March 2023 in Southam...
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The GWCT has undertaken a significant body of research into ecological impacts of gamebird releasing and management. Our research highlights that there is an approximate balance of positive and negative impacts.
The negative impacts tend to be localised around release areas and can be mitigated ...
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The Missing Salmon Alliance (MSA) invite the public to join them for an evening in conversation with key UK conservationists to talk about the situation facing our UK chalk streams and the species and biodiversity within these environments.
With speakers including Dylan Roberts (GWCT), Stuart Si...
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GWCT Research
Three documents have been published recently that review the ecological effects of pheasant and red-legged partridge releasing:
In August, a comprehensive report commissioned by Natural England and the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (Madden & Sage, ‘NE revie...
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Earlier this year, British Birds posted a letter by Leo Smith, making various claims not just about the impact of pheasant releasing on curlew, but also about the GWCT. This month, the journal published a response written by our Head of Research, Dr Andrew Hoodless, which we have summarised belo...
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