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By Dave Parish, GWCT Head of Scottish Lowland Research
Rewilding is familiar to many these days and as a concept is often proffered as the only long-term solution to many of the world’s environmental ills. The general argument suggests that humans have messed-up the natural world to such a degre...
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Protecting an area for a species works in theory, however, that does not mean they will go there!
The dark-bellied Brent Geese are a winter visitor to the South East Coast, flying in from their breeding grounds in Siberia. They are of high international importance because of their small populati...
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The term ‘Biodiversity Net Gain’ will be familiar to anyone involved in the land and wildlife management sector, and one that has gained increasing traction with policy makers in recent years. Broadly speaking, Biodiversity Net Gain is an approach to land management that leaves our wildlife and ...
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Written by Owen Williams, renowned artist and Woodcock enthusiast
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GWCT Cymru are very much involved in working with farmers in Wales and soil health is firmly on the agenda in several ongoing projects across the country. My recent study on why feeding woodcock prefer some pasture f...
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The use of pesticides is hotly debated, but arguments around it are often absolute and lack nuance. The government derogation for farmers to use the neonicotinoid thiamethoxam on sugar beet this year (dependent on evidence of potentially yield threatening levels of pests) created lots of headlin...
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On the face of it, we should welcome the research published in Science that improved crop performance can be achieved in hard soils through gene modification (reported in Farming UK). Whilst soil compaction does restrict crop yields, the solution is more complex than to just adapt plant genetics....
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Written by Dr Jennifer Brewin, Writer and Research Specialist
In February 2020, as COVID loomed and before many of us had grasped the profound effect it would have, the GWCT and eight other organisations released a statement calling for the shooting community to voluntarily move aw...
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You only have until Thursday 31st March to enter the GWCT Highland Big Four Raffle where you could win a superb day’s shooting for you and seven friends across four outstanding estates near Kingussie in the Scottish Highlands.
The prize also includes overnight accommodation, dinner and drinks f...
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We have recently published Conserving Our Woodcock, a new guide which turns 50 years of GWCT woodcock research into practical guidance on how to provide the varied habitat woodcock require. This blog is taken from the guide, which you can download in full here.
The question of how many woodcock...
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A redshank ringed by the GWCT Wetlands research team in the Avon Valley in 2021 has been re-sighted in Northwest France, near Lannion.
GWCT Wetlands Ecologist Dr Lizzie Grayshon is leading a new project studying the movement and habitat use of this Amber-listed species to help target conservation...
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