June

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.

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.

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.

GWCT Head of Education Mike Swan urges caution when it comes to overusing the strimmer, which can easily result in exposing the carefully hidden nest of a pheasant, partridge or duck.

The big new story in agri-environment schemes and farmland conservation is farmer clusters – groups of neighbouring farmers working together to deliver landscape scale conservation in a co-ordinated way. So, why not shoot clusters as well?