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Conservation is sometimes misunderstood as being all about wildlife. The reality is that conservation doesn’t operate in a vacuum, away from the human world. Pristine wilderness rarely needs our meddling, unless those very wildernesses are themselves threatened by us.
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Auchnerran Blog
In the past, many believed that the curlew’s haunting cry lamented the souls of lost sailors. Sad, then, to reflect that without concerted effort to save the curlew, we may soon mourn its loss to many parts of Scotland.
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Waders
According to the Curlew Recovery Partnership, around two thirds of all curlew pairs breeding in the English lowlands occupy agricultural grassland habitats affected by seasonal grass-cutting.
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Farmland Ecology Blog
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Farmland Ecology
Solitary bees are often overlooked in the world of bees, with bumblebees and honeybees being much more familiar to most people. In fact, 90% of the UK’s bee species are actually solitary bees, with around 250 solitary bee species, only 24 bumblebee species, and just one honeybee species.
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Advice
Here is a crucial point to understand; whatever the predator, how many you nail is not the measure of success. The key question is how much predation are you stopping?
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Events
The GWCT and BASC have teamed up again to deliver a course designed to improve best practice on DIY shoots and farm shoots. The course is aimed at shoot captains, syndicate members and anyone that manages their own small shoot.
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GWCT Wales
On the evening of Monday 4th April, the newly formed GWCT South West Wales Committee held their first event courtesy of Dr Nick Fox and the Beavis Trust to visit their conservation focused 300-acre farm near Carmarthen and their lakes which are home to a beaver population.
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Lead shot
Aim to Sustain have published a letter of response to the open letter written by the RSPB and WWT in which they called for a ban on the use of lead ammunition.
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