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Written by Joe Stanley, Head of Training and Partnerships, GWCT Allerton Project
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The GWCT welcomes the scale and scope of Henry Dimbleby’s National Food Strategy – there can be no doubt that our diets, the way in which we produce our food and its impact on the environment are all i...
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Rotherfield Shoot
After 10 years the GWCT’s demonstration shoot at Rotherfield Park Estate in Hampshire came to an end in February. The aim of the shoot was to show how grey partridges and wider farmland biodiversity could be restored alongside running a pheasant shoot. Under the management of Ma...
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By Henrietta Appleton, GWCT Policy Officer
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The lessons from America on wildfire suppression are real and urgent (Science Daily - Fire operations-prescribed burning combo reduces wildfire severity up to 72% 14 July 2021). There is a significant policy gap in the assertions made by t...
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By Andrew Gilruth, GWCT Head of Communications
Two years after the General Licence fiasco, Defra has announced that it has taken control of heather burning too – another complex issue that some have repeatedly oversimplified. The RSPB, which has championed extensive restrictions, has been clear t...
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This month the Welsh Government has rejected amendments to the Agriculture (Wales) Bill to allow the licensed use of Humane Cable Restraints (HCRs) to protect breeding curlew. In response, Owen Williams, GWCT Chairman of Trustees, Wales, wrote the letter below to the Welsh Minister for Rural Affa...
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GWCT Wales Director Sue Evans will be sharing the key findings from a new report into what game shooting means for Welsh people and the countryside at an online event taking place on Thursday 21 January.
The report was compiled following a survey in which nearly 600 people provided their testimon...
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The balance of game shot in the UK has undergone a considerable change in the past 50 years, as a study produced by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) shows. For several game species such as pheasant, red-legged partridge and roe deer, the numbers shot have increased in the past 50...
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By Owen Williams, GWCT Chairman for Ceredigion
Everyone is worried about curlew in Wales – our breeding population has seen a 62 percent decline over the past 25 years.
(Photo credit: James Roberts)
I have personal evidence of this decline near my house, south of Aberystwyth, where four years ago...
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The Guardian recently reported on a study by Dr Adam Pellegrini of Cambridge University that has highlighted that wildfires are impacting on the ability of forests to capture carbon due to changes in tree density and size. Given that trees are increasingly seen as a natural climate solution (or N...
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By Dave Parish, GWCT Head of Scottish Lowland Research
The plight of waders breeding in the UK is well known. All of our familiar species are in serious decline and we hear frequent warnings about local extinctions for some of them. Undoubtedly the prime causes of decline are a loss of quality ha...
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