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The Vaynol Estate in Bangor, North Wales welcomed GWCT’s first Welsh Game Fair on the 9-11 September 2022, where 10,000 visited the inaugral three day event. On the opening day of the event, a gun salute took place to celebrate the life of Her Majesty The Queen followed by a two-minute silence i...
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By Henrietta Appleton, GWCT Policy Officer (England)
The GWCT supports the return of native species including by reintroduction – after all we have been party to some of them! However, we are of the view that all reintroductions must follow International Union of Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Gu...
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By Rhiannon Wooldridge, GWCT Scottland Lowlands placement student
The partridge pair surveys are an essential tool for monitoring the population dynamics of the grey partridge, Perdix perdix, a ground-nesting bird found in the UK and across Europe, that we use as an indicator species for farmland...
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By Ross MacLeod, GWCT Head of Policy, Scotland
The pressing need to respond to global climate change and biodiversity loss is undoubtedly driving a large part of our Scottish policy work this year, with government consultations, draft legislation, parliamentary evidence sessions and more coming ...
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On Wednesday 24 January, Teresa Dent CBE was on a panel of experts giving their witness statements about the role of natural capital in the green economy. Teresa joined Minette Batters, President of the NFU, and Judicaelle Hammond, Director of Policy and Advice at the CLA.
Describing the early su...
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By Fiona Torrance, Farmland Biodiversity Advisor, GWCT Scotland
Last year I was given the unenviable challenge of developing farmer clusters in Scotland. Although farmer clusters have been going in England since 2012 and have been immensely successful (with over 100 connected to GWCT now establis...
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Written by Isabella Allan, Scottish Lowlands placement student
On a drizzly Saturday in November, four students packed up their fieldwork gear and drove up the winding and picturesque road to Auchnerran, the GWCT Scottish Demonstration Farm. We were greeted in the dark by the lichen-lined woodlan...
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Written by Isabella Allan, Scottish Lowlands placement student
Throughout August and September of last year the Scottish Lowlands Research team undertook pitfall trapping on the six farms in the PepsiCo FAB project. We sampled at some beautiful locations, surrounded by the flowers of cover crops ...
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Written by Mike Swan, GWCT Senior Advisor
In early 2020, when our various organisations announced a joint plan to phase out the use of lead in live quarry shooting, no one could possibly have known about the glitches that would get in the way. Five years seemed like a sensible target, but no one ...
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By Mike Swan, GWCT Head of Educaiton
In common with almost everyone else my shooting season has been badly compromised by Coronavirus restrictions. After a great summer for wild breeding, I was looking forward to something of a record season, but instead of five days plus one shared, we have enj...
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