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UPDATE – We are pleased to report that NRW have responded to Wild Justice saying that NRW considers that the general licenses issued on the 7th October 2019 and reissued on 1st January 2020 are lawful. Therefore, they will not be taking any steps to revoke the general licences.
On 3 February Wild...
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The GWCT has produced this survey to capture the detail of General Licences in Wales. As with the previous consultation, we will collate and anonymise the information before putting it into a report. The closing date for our survey is 10th January.
Why is this user survey so important?
Wild Just...
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The 'State of Birds in Wales 2018' report indicated that “more than three quarters of the Welsh curlew population has disappeared over the last 25 years, with no hint of this trend levelling out”, with recent statistics indicating that it continues to fall by over 6 per cent annually, with count...
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In a recent email newsletter, the campaigning group Wild Justice questioned why Defra had sought advice from GWCT in relation to General Licence GL43 - the licensing mechanism for gamebird releasing on or near some protected sites.
Wild Justice claimed that ‘this was hardly a source of expertise...
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We are pleased to report that via Holts latest auction once again included lots to benefit the GWCT through its Holts Charity and Legacy Lots Programme. The auction included over 7500 lots, with a total hammer price exceeding £2 million, with around £1,200 raised for the GWCT.Your gun could featu...
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By Prof. Chris Stoate, Allerton Project Head of Research
Politicising climate change is dangerous. There are numerous examples of how forcing complex environmental issues into binary choices doesn’t turn out well. Understanding the science, accepting the complexity, and acting on the best evidenc...
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By Prof. Chris Stoate Allerton Project Head of Research
Turn sheep or cattle into a field of fresh grass and some of them invariably prefer to eat the hedge! And why are livestock so determined to eat the young trees we have planted to give them shade in hot weather and shelter in strong winds?...
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Written by Prof. Chris Stoate, Allerton Project Head of Research
Thirty years ago today, I drove from my then home in Hampshire to Loddington in Leicestershire to conduct a night-time spotlight count of brown hares. That was the start of thirty years of data collection on what was t...
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Every ten years the BTO and GWCT collaborate on a survey to estimate the UK's breeding woodcock population. Watch this short video featuring our Head of Wetlands Research Chris Heward demonstrating what's involved:
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By Prof. Chris Stoate, Allerton Project Head of Research
As a society, we have become disconnected, not just from the sources of our food, but from the very concept that the process of food production is integrated with countless wildlife species. In Chapter 3 of Farming with the Environment, I d...
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