June

St David’s Game Bird Services have been working in close collaboration with other vet practices and shooting organisations to prepare the launch of a new Pen Scoring Matrix this summer which aims to better assess the environment, health and welfare of game birds prior to release.

The recent debate on driven grouse shooting revealed two very different attitudes to management. Those opposed to banning grouse shooting regard the management of grouse moors as a constructive action supporting biodiversity and other public goods and services; those supporting a ban see management as artificial and destructive. So who is right?

Take part in the biggest annual survey of the shooting community and you could win a Loden Field Coat from Purdey worth more than £900.

We need some much more detailed scientific investigation before we unreservedly welcome beavers back into the British countryside. 

Guest blog by Amanda Perkins, Curlew Country Manager.

Dr. Jen Brewin takes a look at how the badger cull has offered an opportunity for scientists to study the effects of predation by badgers in a way that would not otherwise have been possible.

This week is Insect Week 2021, organised by the Royal Entomological Society and supported by other organisations.

Whilst farming policy has looked to embrace a more sustainable, practical future, the approach to wildlife conservation, as demonstrated by the latest pronouncements from Defra, seems to be ‘stuck in the mud’.

Organisers of The GWCT Scottish Game Fair sponsored by NFU Mutual have seen an unprecedented surge in both ticket sales and exhibition stand bookings after Nicola Sturgeon revealed the roadmap to Level 0 in Scotland.

The biggest talk in town at present has been the Australian trade deal.  I have been reluctant for us (GWCT Wales) to get into this debate as trade is not within our Charitable Objectives.