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Why do we need these principles?
The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust promotes best practice game management as a force for good for nature conservation and environmental improvement on farmland, woodland, moorland and wetland. By establishing principles, we want to promote best practice an...
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Bumblebees are beacons of spring and have a very special place in the hearts of the British public. However, they also play an important economic and ecological role by pollinating crops and wildflowers. The UK has 25 native bumblebee species, but many of these have declined in recent years.
Agri...
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Key points
Insect and other invertebrate numbers are declining across Europe.
This study looked at the importance of weeds in crops for invertebrate numbers.
The number and diversity of invertebrates increased as arable weeds increased.
Certain weed species were most beneficial for invertebrates...
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Q: Do wild birds carry disease-causing parasites?A: Yes. We expect to find parasites across all wild bird species; some live on the skin and feathers, while others are found inside them (for example, we know that wild grey partridges can carry up to 21 species of parasitic worm). Many of these pa...
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Why feed gamebirds after the shooting season?
The leanest time for gamebirds are the late winter and early spring months. By January most of the harvest-spilt grain and weed seeds have been gleaned by birds and small mammals, leaving only green shoots and leaves for gamebirds to feed on.
Once t...
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✓ Invitations to behind-the-scenes visits to important conservation projects, including real research in action at GWCT conservation sites, such as its headquarters at Burgate Manor, in Hampshire, or Th...
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The presence of Trichostrongylus tenuis, a parasitic strongyle threadworm, which lives in the guts of red grouse has been known for more than 100 years. Its impact on red grouse is often referred to as the disease strongylosis. Research started in the 1980s by the GWCT established that infection ...
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Predation control is a key component of grouse moor management and plays an important part in the conservation benefits it brings. Although this sometimes causes controversy, the benefits to both red grouse and other species are well recognised. This chapter explains the methods used and the impa...
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Will you help us stop curlew retreating?
We don’t want the curlew to go the way of many of our much-loved birds, like the corncrake and the nightjar. They shouldn’t be consigned to a few remote places. That is why we are asking you to support this urgent appeal for funds.
It is estimated that th...
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Turtle dove
Since visiting Martin Down NNR on a field trip while I was studying for my degree, I have returned countless times during different seasons over the years to marvel at the rich wildlife that this site holds, and it became my favourite place from my very first visited nearly 20 years a...
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