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As a Zoology student I’m not your typical shoot attendee. Many of my course mates have stigmatized the world of shooting, perceiving it as unnecessary and barbaric. This has in many places resulted in a social barrier between shooters and conservation – two sectors which I believe need to work t...
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By Jasmine Canham, GWCT Wildlife Recovery placement student
When I first started my degree in Environmental Conservation at Bangor University, I hadn’t actually planned to do a placement year. I didn’t know much about them so I decided I would take the ‘normal route’ and go straight into my third...
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A new ‘Wildlife Plot’ agri-environment option, which promises to be one of the best yet for biodiversity, has been developed as part of the GWCT’s PARTRIDGE Project on the Rotherfield Estate in Hampshire. Containing more than 20 species and based on years of research across Europe into the ideal ...
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The balance of game shot in the UK has undergone a considerable change in the past 50 years, as a study produced by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) shows. For several game species such as pheasant, red-legged partridge and roe deer, the numbers shot have increased in the past 50...
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Written by Amelia Corvin-Czarnodolski, PARTRIDGE Placement Student 2021-2022
Since scraping the side of my dad’s ALL4 Mini Countryman in lockdown last year, I have had a deep-set fear of driving big cars that are not my own. Fortunately, this hasn’t been much of a problem since I bought my own li...
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On Monday 27th March Natural Resources Wales (NRW), on behalf of Welsh Government, launched a 12-week public consultation on their proposals to licence gamebird releasing in Wales. They propose to move pheasant and red-legged partridge onto Schedule 9 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 whi...
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By Rebecca Mills, Scottish Lowlands placement student
This blog is a follow on from my last blog about winter bird surveys which you can find here.
What are breeding bird surveys?
Breeding bird surveys are an essential part of biodiversity monitoring in the UK, to understand the changing numbers...
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With many of us confined to our homes, much has been made of wildlife ‘returning’ to urban areas – mountain goats roaming the streets of Llandudno for example – but what of the British countryside they usually call home? Approached by The Telegraph for his thoughts, Mike Swan, our trusty head of...
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Henry Cheape (letter, Apr 21) highlights the importance of planting trees in the right place. With the government wedded to increasing planting to 30,000 hectares a year with trees by 2025, there are plenty of opportunities for expanding woodland cover that do not require the repurposing of la...
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Rotherfield Shoot
After 10 years the GWCT’s demonstration shoot at Rotherfield Park Estate in Hampshire came to an end in February. The aim of the shoot was to show how grey partridges and wider farmland biodiversity could be restored alongside running a pheasant shoot. Under the management of Ma...
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