June

“What is not clear is that banning driven grouse shooting would be good for the environment: in fact, I think that, on balance, it would be harmful”, said Tom Hunt, MP for Ipswich as he drew Monday’s Westminster Hall debate on the future of driven grouse shooting to a close. Across an hour and a half, members of Parliament shared their views on the Wild Justice petition to ban driven grouse shooting.

With curlew in decline in the UK, the Curlew Recovery Partnership (CRP) is hosting a series of regional workshops in late June and early July, giving anyone interested in curlew conservation to chance to learn more about curlew conservation and discuss concerns and opportunities in their local area.

Brown hares are naturalised but not strictly native to the UK.

GWCT Scotland first started using the Epicollect5 App at our demonstration farm in Aberdeenshire to maintain predator control and habitat management data. This type of information gathering paved the way for thinking about how we can further equip keepers and land managers with a simple, effective tool to record a variety of management information.

Dr. Jen Brewin examines the experience of some conservation projects, farm managers and gamekeepers when it comes to badgers adding more pressure for some other species.

Gathering data on farms and shoots to demonstrate the influence of practical habitat and wildlife management on the status of our precious flora and fauna has never been more important. Join us via Zoom on Monday afternoon for a free seminar.

After the Nant Gwtheyrn feral goat project was featured on Countryfile, some may ask why are GWCT doing a project on goats. Is this part of GWCT’s charitable objectives? How does it fit in with the rest of our work?

Having mounted 50 project nest boxes during February and into March, our team then started the first round of nest box checks at the beginning of May.

On 12th May 2021 Defra published their licence to release gamebirds on European sites and within 500m of their boundary (GL43). Natural England would like to remind you that they are offering an online Advice Service to help shoot managers and gamekeepers decide whether they can operate under the conditions of the general licence or will require an individual licence for the release of gamebirds.

Check out the latest from the GWCT Shoots.