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By Fiona Torrance, GWCT Scotland Farmland Biodiversity Advisor and Project Manager for the PepsiCo FAB project
Historically, Scottish agri-environmental schemes have found it difficult to find a balance between establishing measures for biodiversity and ensuring that the system itself works for f...
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Written by Jonathan Reynolds, Head of Predation Control Studies as part of a two-part series. Read part two here.
Part one - The thought process
This week sees the publication of a very important paper by GWCT scientists, one that has been a long time in the making. First author Tom Porteus worke...
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GWCT Research
Three documents have been published recently that review the ecological effects of pheasant and red-legged partridge releasing:
In August, a comprehensive report commissioned by Natural England and the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (Madden & Sage, ‘NE revie...
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By Mike Swan, GWCT Head of Education
Lets start by noting the words Predation Control rather than predator. In managing game and wildlife, how many predators you kill is of no great relevance; rather it is the predation that you prevent that matters. As a consequence, shooting odd random predato...
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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
6 minute read
Planting trees is very fashionable these days, and most people think it is good conservation practice. Aside from replacing what our ancestors felled, there is also a halo of virtue because of carbon capture and global warming. Like all such fas...
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4 Minute Read
Written by Mike Swan, GWCT Head of Education
With Defra due to undertake a call for evidence on the future of fox snares, there has never been a better moment to make the distinction between a modern humane cable restraint that meets international standards, and the cheap and nasty...
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4 Minute Read
Written by Mike Swan, GWCT Senior Advisor
“Pheasants are useless mothers”; how often I have heard those word, but are they true? This view certainly has a long history, and way back in 1895 the Rev H. A. Macpherson said they are “careless, clumsy mothers” in the fur, feather and fin...
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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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Mike Short, Head of Predation Management Research
Through its Curlew Trial Management Project (Douglas et al) the RSPB concluded that government-funded lethal predator management as part of a holistic ELMS package for breeding wading bird conservation is unlikely to lead to localised population r...
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