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By Mike Swan, GWCT Head of Education
In forty years of delivering game management advice, I’ve seen all sorts of syndicates, from big formal shoots, to little groups of working people who just want to escape into the countryside for a few winter Saturdays. Some of these gangs are the happiest of...
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A spectacular celebration of conservation and the countryside for over three decades, The GWCT Scottish Game Fair, sponsored by NFU Mutual, will return to Scone Palace in Perthshire this year from Friday 24 to Sunday 26 September, for its 32nd year.
The three-day event attracts over 30,000 visit...
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By Mike Swan, GWCT Head of Education
Back in March 1982 I struck silver. I was the new apprentice game adviser at GWCT, just over two months in post. My boss, Ian McCall and I had just finished running our eight day Gamekeepers Training Course, and we took a day off to go to the local guns and ta...
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By Mike Swan, GWCT Senior Advisor
“All wildlife benefits from….” my heart sinks every time I hear those words, because they are invariably wrong. They are usually followed with the word gamekeeping, or shooting, and whichever is chosen the resulting sweeping statement reveals a degree of fundame...
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By Jayna Connelly, Farmland Ecology Research Assistant
As a researcher surveying pollinators, I occasionally find my attention drawn to the low hum of what I hope might be a foraging queen bumblebee, only to find it is in fact that of a distant strimmer. It would be a sad day if all we hear in sp...
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