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Earlier this year the GWCT policy team was invited to respond to a consultation on Environmental Targets. We feel the 25-year Environmental Plan is ambitious, but it will take focused effort to meet its goals.
Our thoughts were as follows:
A need for the right focus
We are concerned that there a...
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The Hunting with Dogs Bill – what does it mean for predator control?
The Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Bill was passed on January 24th 2023. For over a year now, the land management sector, led by the Rural Environment and Land Management (RELM) group of organisations, has been fully engaged in d...
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By Joe Stanley, Head of Farming, Training & Partnerships, Allerton Project
It will come as a welcome relief to the farming industry that Defra’s announcement on the 26th of January finally puts a significant amount of detail into the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) tier of the Environmen...
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As you may already be aware, 2023 is an important year for woodcock research. For the third time since its inception in 2003, GWCT and BTO are running the national Breeding Woodcock Survey to provide a snapshot of our resident woodcock population’s size and status. The survey relies on a careful...
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Following the disastrous bird flu pandemic that so heavily impacted the current shooting season – not to mention the increased cost of running a shoot – Richard Leach of Keepers Choice runs through the best practises for feeding the laying hen, with every poult seemingly worth its weight in gold...
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Habitat, food and predator control are key components to gamebird management for any shoot, wild or reared. We call this the three-legged stool approach; shortfalls in one leg or more can result in significant disappointment.
Whilst habitat creation and management are fundamental to an environmen...
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We are delighted to announce a number of upcoming events and hope that you will take the opportunity to attend and catch up with what we’ve been doing recently.
The events are not exclusive to members so please do invite friends along and we hope that once attended they’ll have a better understa...
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Credit: Richard -Davies
To coincide with the release of the fourth episode of Wild Isles, a new BBC One wildlife series presented by Sir David Attenborough, in which he states that “there has been a 70% loss in 25 years and [wild Atlantic] salmon could be extinct in the next two decades”, Missin...
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By Joe Stanley, Head of Farming, Training & Partnerships at the Allerton Project
On 4th May the Allerton Project hosted our inaugural Agricultural Biochar Knowledge Exchange event, bringing together stakeholders from across the industry with an interest in this exciting and rapidly evolving ...
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By Alastair Leake, Director of Policy & Allerton Project
There’s a row broken out in the Garden of Eden. Apparently, we must cease our assiduous nurturing of our horticultural havens and allow nature to do a Brexit and “take back control”. Yes, you’ve guessed, the Rewilders have your lawns in...
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