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By Fiona Torrance, GWCT Scotland Farmland Biodiversity Advisor and Project Manager for the PepsiCo FAB project
Historically, Scottish agri-environmental schemes have found it difficult to find a balance between establishing measures for biodiversity and ensuring that the system itself works for f...
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The deadline for consultation responses is Tuesday, 20th June. It is imperative that those involved in game management and shooting, in whatever capacity and in any location in the UK respond to this consultation.
Those in Wales should now be very aware of NRW's proposals to licence gamebird rel...
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On the 12th May 2021 Defra published their licence to release gamebirds on European sites and within 500m of their boundary (GL43). Please find further information here. Natural England would like to remind you that they are offering an online Advice Service to help shoot managers and gamekeepers...
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Barn owl breeding success last year was four percent higher, at 2.66 fledglings per nest, than the preceding four-year average, according to a new report from the Campaign for Responsible Rodenticide Use. On the same basis, a 17% increase was also found in the percentage of nests that produced f...
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It's UK Soils Awareness Week 2022 from 10-16th October and we recently hosted a fascinating webinar on soil carbon with Professor David Powlson, who led the research on carbon cycling at Rothamsted Research.
As we seek to achieve “Net Zero”, farmers and land managers will need to understand and q...
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Those that enjoy watching reintroduced red kites, ospreys and sea eagles flying above southern England would have been startled by your report on hen harriers (RSPB ‘shot down return of rare bird of prey over illegal killings’, Jul 27). Thirty years ago we had to travel to Wales to see red kites...
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Sir,
Since the Climate Change Committee failed to explain how it reached its recommendation that heather burning should be banned on moorlands, we should not be surprised that Defra has decided to review all the evidence and produce its own report (Ministers accused of blocking plans to ban burni...
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It has not gone unnoticed that the League Against Cruel Sports appears to have overlooked a GWCT poll which found that the majority of the Welsh population would like pheasant shooting to continue. What was particularly striking was that 85% of responders said the benefits of shooting are poorly ...
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The RSPB has called for an immediate moratorium on release of gamebirds in UK countryside
Defra and the game management sector recognise the significant threat posed by highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) to the UK’s precious wild bird populations. There is already a ban on releasing gamebi...
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At the start of July, we set out a challenge, to find 500 new members before the end of the year. I’m delighted to say that, a little over two weeks later, 100 of you have risen to that challenge and signed up.
From each of our 100 staff to each of our 100 new members - thank you.
Each one of you...
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