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Tuesday 28 March 2023 at Shropshire Conference Centre, Shrewsbury
Tickets: £50.00 - Book here >
The leading game management event returns as a face-to-face conference on 28 March for the first time since 2019. Run by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT), the information-packed g...
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As the Bro Cors Caron SMS project comes to an end, we were fortunate to have a visit to Cruglas Farm from the Welsh Government’s Director for Rural Affairs, Gian Marco Currado. Responsible for the team devising the Sustainable Farming Scheme (or SFS, the future Welsh agri-environment scheme due ...
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The Royal Agricultural Society of England (RASE) has awarded its 2023 National Agricultural Award to Dr Alastair Leake, the Director of Policy at the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT). The award recognises his outstanding contribution to British agriculture through his work leading th...
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A new project by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust is trying to find out if larger numbers of lapwing chicks can survive on farmland fallow plots if provided with more space to hide from predators and increased levels of invertebrates to feed on.
Researchers will be visiting sites on far...
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The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) has developed a set of Principles of Gamebird Management in the UK and is inviting feedback from people involved in the game shooting and conservation community. The principles, which are based on international agreements on conservation, focus on...
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While many of Britain’s nature reserves were closed through lockdown, conservation work continued on private land across Britain. Despite that, the men and women working hard to make our much-loved moorland thrive are often overlooked. Their previously untold stories are celebrated in a new publ...
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Bayer Crop Science UK’s new Head of Business, Marion McPherson, today handed over 80 pairs of children’s wellington boots to Dr Alastair Leake, Director of the Allerton Trust. The wellington boots, of various sizes, will be used when parties of school children visit the Allerton Trust farm in Lod...
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The Voluntary Initiative, the national farming-led programme to promote best practice in pesticide use through Integrated Pest Management, has appointed Allerton Project head of farming, training & partnerships Phil Jarvis as its new Chair.
Phil, who also chairs the NFU Environment Forum, ha...
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As the five-year transition towards sustainable ammunition continues, it is to be welcomed that large parts of the shooting community have recognised the need for change.
Despite the uncertainty caused by Covid-19, a significant number of people have embraced technologicaldevelopments in ammunit...
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Ross Macleod, GWCT Head of Policy (Scotland) said: “Following our involvement in the research and subsequent roll-out of a methodology for counting mountain hares at night approved by NatureScot, the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust is pleased to be part of the project group now seeking to ...
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