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This year the Biometrics team has three students who are on placement here at the GWCT. Rachel Cook and George Scarisbrick from Bangor University will be working with the GIS team and moving to Wetlands during the fieldwork season in April; Ellie Raynor (from Manchester Metropolitan University) w...
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Written by Dave Parish, Head of Scottish Lowland Research
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This year we have published two blogs (here and here) reporting unusually high levels of badger predation on early lapwing clutches at our demonstration farm, Auchnerran. Predation is always the principal cause of wader egg ...
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Last month Greenpeace launched a petition calling for a total ban on controlled burning in the UK uplands. In response, GWCT chief executive Teresa Dent CBE wrote the letter below to Greenpeace’s interim UK Executive Director, Pat Venditti Esq. offering to meet to present the scientific evidence....
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Are you looking for some amazing books to give as gifts this Christmas? Do you want to kickstart some interesting conversations with your friends and family about how we manage our countryside? If so, you should visit the GWCT online shop, where you can find a wide range of books that will fuel c...
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By John Holland, Head of Farmland Ecology
In 1992 I started my career as a newly fledged post-doc working on the Integrated Farming Systems project and so have been intrigued to see the rising interest in Regenerative Agriculture. But what is it and is it any different to Integrated Farming that ...
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Dear Sir,
The Living Planet Report (Humans exploiting and destroying nature on unprecedented scale, 10 September) paints a bleak picture for the future of global biodiversity and it is hard not to feel helpless. Robin Freeman’s claim that “we’ve spent 10 to 20 years talking about these declines a...
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By Andrew Gilruth, GWCT Director of Communications
When it came to finding solutions to wildlife conflict, Scotland has been a world leader – until now. It was home to the most ambitious large-scale moorland raptor trials in the world. However, lessons learnt have not been developed and Scotland ...
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Speaking at this year’s Oxford Farming Conference, NFU President Minette Batters hailed the positive impact of Britain’s farmers, describing them as working conservationists and urging politicians to remember the people who lay at the heart of a better future.
‘We cannot do it any other way than...
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By Leah Cloonan and Lucy Marsden, Uplands Team
A new fieldwork season has begun and along with it a new project, bringing new tasks. The maternal red grouse condition project commenced in March when 70 red grouse hens were caught from seven different study sites in Upper Teesdale, North Pennines....
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On 27 March Natural Resources Wales, on behalf of Welsh Government, launched a 12-week public consultation on their proposals to license gamebird releasing in Wales. It is absolutely critical that everyone with an interest in shooting in Wales, whether from Wales or not, responds, offering const...
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