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Written by Henrietta Appleton, Policy Officer (England)
Bracken1 has become a contentious subject for land managers, whilst it has some benefits, where it is invasive and becomes dominant it can have a range of negative impacts which have required its perpetual control through both chemical and ...
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On Saturday 12th March, GWCT's SAMARCH Fisheries Project Officer, Will Beaumont, will be leading a FREE workshop on "Identifying River Wildlife in Sydling Water".
SAMARCH Project Partner Bournemouth University are also involved, with Professor Genoveva Esteban leading a workshop on "Exploring th...
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By Henrietta Appleton, GWCT Policy Officer (England)
As we enter the political conference season there will be more calls for a “right to nature” and increased rights of public access potentially increasing access beyond the current commitment in the Environmental Improvement Plan. But I wonder ...
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When it comes to researching the environmental impacts of game shooting, Britain leads the world. This has largely been achieved by those that shoot funding ecological studies, including the hundreds of scientific papers published by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust.
Contrary to your re...
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Sir,
When it comes to researching the environmental impacts of game shooting, Britain leads the world. However, it’s bizarre that staff at the RSPB decided to use a review process that accentuates the negatives and minimises the positives in order to produce their doom-laden conclusions (News, Oc...
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Earlier this month, the High Court rejected an application for judicial review of Defra’s burning regulations. Their legal challenge, launched in July, claimed that because there is no map to identify where such peat is deeper than 40cm, the rules can’t be enforced.
The core of the campaign grou...
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5 minute read
By James Swyer, GWCT Head of Press & Publications
“What is not clear is that banning driven grouse shooting would be good for the environment: in fact, I think that, on balance, it would be harmful”, said Tom Hunt, MP for Ipswich as he drew Monday’s Westminster Hall debate on t...
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By Joe Stanley, Head of Training and Partnerships at the Allerton Project
This article first appeared in Countryside magazine
4 minute read
2021 may have seen me move to pastures new (and as with so many alliterations, in agriculture this is quite literal) but the farming calendar as I know it h...
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As food consumers we are bombarded by meal deals (for our lunchtime sandwich or for that special 3 course evening meal) and multi-buy deals (e.g. BOGOFs or 3 for £5 etc). The focus on the cost of sustaining ourselves is very real given recent food price inflation - and for many a costly monthly ...
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Article written for Gamewise Spring 2024 by Chris Heward, Head of Wetland Research. He is keen to build an accurate picture of our woodcock population.
Chris Heward reports on a fantastic response to the 2023 Breeding Woodcock Survey and despite the conclusions not being straightforward, the resu...
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