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A window on future land management?
In our last blog on carbon audits and the natural capital assessment undertaken at Auchnerran, our demonstration farm in Aberdeenshire, we considered whether these initiatives could help provide a window on future land management. Six months on, how do we ref...
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The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust condemns crimes against wildlife, and we are committed to finding effective and practical resolutions to conflicts, such as the one between red grouse and raptors. Our work with the Langholm Moor Demonstration Project, Scotland’s Moorland Forum’s Underst...
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Sussex Study: Changes in cereal invertebrates
BEESPOKE
Bumblebee use of farmland habitats
The birds and the bees
Sussex Study: Cereal invertebrates
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The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust Cymru welcomes the opportunity to respond to this petition. We believe that control of members of the crow family (corvids) is crucially important to the conservation of many wildlife species within Wales, and that the use of Larsen traps is a vital comp...
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This short, ten-page report reviews the evidence that managing land for gamebirds improves the prospects for other bird species. It draws on recent surveys and especially on the experience of our Leicestershire farm where we have been managing gamebirds since 1992.
Download (PDF, 1.19MB)
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Pheasant woods and wildlife
Biodiversity and release pens
Pheasant releasing and woodland rides
Pheasants in Austria
Release pen siting
Hexamita in pheasants
Mycoplasma in pheasants
Effects of spectacles on pheasants
Wild pheasant counts
Pheasant parasites
Fate of released pheasants
L...
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Pheasant woods and wildlife
Biodiversity and release pens
Pheasant releasing and woodland rides
Pheasants in Austria
Release pen siting
Hexamita in pheasants
Mycoplasma in pheasants
Effects of spectacles on pheasants
Wild pheasant counts
Pheasant parasites
Fate of released pheasants
L...
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We believe that effective predator control must be rational, achievable, proportionate, focused and humane.
Our research suggests that predation can be a common limiting factor for breeding success for many species in the UK, especially where there is limited habitat extent, quality and connecti...
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Heather burning has a long history of use in managing moorland. It encourages the growth of new shoots, which are more palatable than older, woody heather to grazing livestock and grouse. Currently, however, heather burning, especially over blanket bog stimulates an active debate about the possib...
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Dear Scottish member
I have now been in post for five months as the Director for The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust for Scotland, having taken over from Dr Adam Smith, who has moved to be Director (Policy). There is a lot going on, much of which you will be aware, and the aim of this lett...
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