August

This September we can look forward to another month packed full of exciting GWCT events, including drinks at the historic library at Wormsley and a talk with Sir Johnny Scott. 

We respond to a recent piece in The Telegraph on mountain hare declines.

The season has been cracked open and here at Tuffies we are making every effort to create dog beds that really work for the hard working dogs. 

The RSPB press office forgot to mention (Mountain hares on grouse moors down 99% in 60 years, 14 August) that their study reinforces what is already known, that mountain hares are notoriously difficult to count and estimates based on walking through the heather can be no better than a guess. 

Meeting at a nature reserve beside the Thames Estuary may sound a strange place to discuss our uplands but there is a link – both have peat underneath and at one time had trees on top.

he RSPB is right to call in gamekeepers and follow the evidence (Rod Liddle - Royal Society for the Protection of (some) Birds. Not you, crow - you must die in agony, August 12) that predation can and does impact curlew populations. Our upland experiment predicted that predation control can nearly double curlew numbers in five years but, without it, they are facing local extinctions.

Mark the start of the grouse season with special offers and raffles from the GWCT.

The RSPB is right to call in gamekeepers and follow the evidence (RSPB defends crow cull as members fly off the handle, August 7) that predation can and does impact prey populations.

It is bizarre that the RSPB should now suggest (Feathers fly over who to thank for saving hen harrier, Aug 6) that these successes have been achieved through nest protection alone.