GWCT News Blog

This presentation was delivered by John Gregson, senior manager of agri-food communications at Waitrose during our recent Game 2020 Conference and covers the company's stance on lead shot.

If we are to reverse the ‘relentless’ wildlife declines we are witnessing, we need a fresh approach (UK biodiversity targets missed as funding and species decline, 16 October). Public sector spending on conservation is crucial but will never fulfil its potential without inspiring those who are already making a real change.

Watch this short video from the Fieldsports Channel, featuring an interview with GWCT Communications Director Andrew Gilruth.

A new scientific paper in the journal Wildlife Biology came out this week (12 October), led by GWCT Head of Lowland Research Dr Rufus Sage, which delves into the effects of released pheasants and red-legged partridges on wildlife and the environment.

The new Sustainable Food and Farming Scheme (SFFS), launched by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust alongside other rural organisations including the NFU and LEAF, proposes a refreshing, flexible approach to environmental land management.

When it comes to researching the environmental impacts of game shooting, Britain leads the world. However, it’s bizarre that staff at the RSPB decided to use a review process that accentuates the negatives and minimises the positives in order to produce their doom-laden conclusions. 

With nature in trouble it’s eminently sensible that we all remain objective and work together. Our response to  'game shooters fear for their sport as RSPB chiefs take aim' recently featured in The Times.

This presentation was delivered by GWCT Head of Advisory Roger Draycott at our recent Game 2020 Conference and covers GWCT initiatives designed to help shoots maximise their biodversity gains.

GWCT Chief Executive Teresa Dent suggests that the recent call from RSPB to ‘stop burning the peat’ seems to deliberately confuse controlled and uncontrolled burning.

The 2020/21 muirburn season got underway last week following a recent decision taken by the Scottish Government to relax the temporary muirburn ban that was imposed on the 1^st April as part of the Coronavirus (Scotland) Act.