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Written by Phil Warren, Senior Research Scientist
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Photo credit: Laurie Campbell
In the UK, grey partridges are primarily associated with lowland cereal farms and were common and widespread up until the Second World War. They have since undergone a severe population decline, chief...
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Written by Henrietta Appleton, Allerton Project
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The need to establish domestic frameworks for farming and conservation post-Brexit provided hope that Government would consider some of the alternative approaches to conservation and sustainable agriculture that had not found favour w...
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By Dr. Jen Brewin, Writer and Research Specialist
4 minute readPolicy makers must broaden their view of upland management
As the beginning of the heather burning season approaches, upland land managers will be planning the tasks ahead to look after their land and their birds with an element of u...
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Written by Dave Baines, Director of Upland Research
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In the summer issue of Gamewise (written in early May), I predicted that this year was likely to be a difficult one for red grouse across the moors of northern England. The likely causative agents were poor quality heather as food...
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This week is Solitary Bee Week which aims to raise awareness of solitary bees and their vital importance to pollination. 90% of all bee species are solitary, and many of them are much better pollinators than their better-known bumble and honeybee cousins.
Following our recent news story about so...
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By Jenny Coomes, LGU Project Scientist
Our research group at the GWCT is attempting to answer the question “Do sites that release gamebirds have more fox activity than non-release sites?” by collecting and analysing fox scats (droppings). 28 February 2022 saw our first day of fieldwork in a progr...
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Ralph and Nini Raynor recently hosted guests at their home Ashcombe Towers on Ashcombe estate near the Exe Estuary in South Devon for a Champagne reception, kindly sponsored by Fisher German, to launch the GWCT Devon High Four Raffle (you can enter here) where the winner will experience four of t...
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By Henrietta Appleton, GWCT Policy Officer (England)
The Daily Telegraph recently reported that the RSPB is seeking contractors to undertake predation management as part of their efforts to protect curlews in Northern Ireland.
Whilst the article was critical of the way the RSPB was handling the ...
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By Kathy Fletcher, Senior Research Assistant
Adult grouse watching over brood we have caught
The late May bank holiday is never much of a holiday for our Scottish uplands research team. This date often marks the start of our grouse chick-catching period. There is a window of just a few week...
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By Ross Macleod, Head of GWCT Policy (Scotland)
It is very difficult to come to terms with the Environment Minister Gillian Martin MSP’s decision to ban all types of snares in Scotland given the resulting prospects for rural management and biodiversity. Soul-destroying even.
Not because we don’t...
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