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As mentioned elsewhere, blackbirds, song and mistle thrushes are all abundant at GWSDF. Our baseline monitoring found them to be breeding at almost four times the density of a nearby reference site in 2016. This was followed up by a pilot study in 2017, conducted by Joe Bishop of Imperial College...
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In 2007, at the British Association for the Advancement of Science, the outgoing chief scientist Sir David King proposed that scientists should adopt a simple universal code of ethics - just as the medical profession has a Hippocratic Oath. He believes it would instil a better trust in science by...
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Who is this service for?Lowland shoots and land managers, particularly those shoots wishing to combine maximum wild production with the most sustainable and cost effective releasing systems.
Brief overview
We provide an entire package of advice, training and monitoring to help you fulfil your sh...
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What you receive when you join
✓ Access to dozens of unique courses and events taking place throughout the year.
✓ The chance to visit our pioneering Allerton Project Farm at Loddington for a guided tour.
✓ Free copies of Gamewise, our feature-packed magazine produced 3 times a year.
✓ Your own ...
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What you receive when you join
✓ Free digital copies of more than 10 bestselling GWCT books and key scientific publications including our Annual Review and members' magazine, produced three times per year.
✓ The chance to visit our pioneering Allerton Project Farm at Loddington for a guided tour...
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The project
We are looking for enthusiastic volunteers who would like to gain experience of surveying to take part in the EU PARTRIDGE Project. This project aims to show how management solutions can improve biodiversity and ecosystem services in agricultural habitats, and we will be recording gre...
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Each year we host undergraduate placement students on ecology, conservation and IT-related degrees, offering them the opportunity to take part in important game and wildlife conservation research. Both our Scottish Lowlands team and our Scottish Demonstration Farm at Auchnerran host students, eve...
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We aim for a thriving countryside rich in game and other wildlife
What do we do?
We use science to promote game and wildlife management as an essential part of nature conservation.
We develop scientifically researched game and wildlife management techniques.
We promote our work to conservationi...
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Science Writer
Amber joined the GWCT in July 2021 as a Science Writer, tasked with reviewing and summarising published research to help make it accessible to a wider audience and tackle scientific misinformation through topic briefing sheets, paper summaries, fact checks and blogs.
“I love workin...
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The shoot sweepstake scheme is a simple but effective way of raising money to support the work of the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust during the shooting season.
The sweepstake can be run on the day’s bag, the number of species or the number of empty cases. Some shoots prefer a system of f...
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