March

As food consumers we are bombarded by meal deals and multi-buy deals. The focus on the cost of sustaining ourselves is very real given recent food price inflation - and for many a costly monthly outgoing.  

The recent People’s Trust for Endangered Species/British Hedgehog Preservation Society report on the State of the British Hedgehogs 2022 makes mixed reading. 

With the shooting season now over, the first signs of breeding are already upon us. So, those who hope for a significant contribution from wild bred game should be making a start on the spring predation control programme.

We’re delighted to be selling a new book which offers an easily accessible introduction to the law applying to forests and woodlands in Scotland.

You only have until Thursday 31st March to enter the GWCT Highland Big Four Raffle where you could win a superb day’s shooting for 8 guns across 4 outstanding estates near Kingussie in the Scottish Highlands.

In the latest Birds of Conservation Concern review, 14 of the 26 farmland birds in the UK have been assigned to the Red List¹. The reasons behind the declines in these species are numerous, however one of particular relevance to seed-eating birds in Wales is the loss of mixed farming. 

A new ‘Wildlife Plot’ agri-environment option, which promises to be one of the best yet for biodiversity, has been developed as part of the GWCT’s PARTRIDGE Project on the Rotherfield Estate in Hampshire.

Earlier this year, British Birds posted a letter by Leo Smith, making various claims not just about the impact of pheasant releasing on curlew, but also about the GWCT. This month, the journal published a response written by our Head of Research, Dr Andrew Hoodless, which we have summarised here.