October

The new Sustainable Food and Farming Scheme (SFFS), launched by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust alongside other rural organisations including the NFU and LEAF, proposes a refreshing, flexible approach to environmental land management.

When it comes to researching the environmental impacts of game shooting, Britain leads the world. However, it’s bizarre that staff at the RSPB decided to use a review process that accentuates the negatives and minimises the positives in order to produce their doom-laden conclusions. 

With nature in trouble it’s eminently sensible that we all remain objective and work together. Our response to  'game shooters fear for their sport as RSPB chiefs take aim' recently featured in The Times.

This presentation was delivered by GWCT Head of Advisory Roger Draycott at our recent Game 2020 Conference and covers GWCT initiatives designed to help shoots maximise their biodversity gains.

GWCT Chief Executive Teresa Dent suggests that the recent call from RSPB to ‘stop burning the peat’ seems to deliberately confuse controlled and uncontrolled burning.

The 2020/21 muirburn season got underway last week following a recent decision taken by the Scottish Government to relax the temporary muirburn ban that was imposed on the 1^st April as part of the Coronavirus (Scotland) Act.

Kirklees Council will be interested to hear that our knowledge of the role heather burning plays in peatland restoration has progressed significantly since the Committee on Climate Change suggested it should cease.

Time is running out to win a magnificent day’s shooting for eight guns on four outstanding estates in beautiful Donside. There are only a few of the 250 tickets still available and the draw closes on Friday 9th October.

Watch this short video from the Fieldsports Channel, featuring an interview with GWCT Communications Director Andrew Gilruth.