May

Defra have published their long awaited General Licence for gamebird releasing on European Protected Sites. Releasing pheasants and red-legged partridges in the protected sites and within a 500m buffer around them will be licensed for an interim period of four years whilst Defra and NE undertake work to assess impacts of gamebird management on individual sites.

The bird which GWCT is probably most associated with is the Grey partridge yet in Wales we have very few left. 

The pair of barn owls occupying one of our Owl Box Initiative project boxes have chosen their nesting site and the male has been provisioning the female regularly.

GWCT Head of Education Mike Swan discusses the move away from use lead shot and shares his own personal experience.

what do our bees and insects want, which are the most useful to have on your farm?