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By Jodie Case, Research Assistant, The Owl Box Initiative
The Owl Box Initiative is a project to inspire farmers and communities to work for the conservation of the Barn Owl, but it is also aims to provide opportunities for a wide range of people to work outdoors and engage with wil...
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by Mike Swan, GWCT Head of Education
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With the home bred ducks busy with their test flights, and the first autumn migrants arriving, now is the moment to start feeding your flight pond. With luck, some of the families will have mums and dads that visited you last season, so will be ...
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By Mathew Goodall, GWCT Head of Education & Advisor and Emma Mellen, Communications & Engagement Officer
World Wetlands Day on the 2nd of February each year aims to raise awareness about wetlands; it also marks the anniversary of the Convention on Wetlands, an international...
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As I mentioned in Part 1 of this series of blogs, working as a research assistant at the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) gives me the opportunity to work on some incredibly exciting research. In early 2022 I joined the Trust’s Predation Control Studies team, where I am learning new sk...
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By Mike Short, Head of Predation Management Research
Lowland wet grasslands, such as the meadows within the Avon Valley in Hampshire, are important for breeding waders, and there has been a long-history of agri-environment payments to landowners to provide suitable habitat for them. However, unti...
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By Ross Macleod, Head of Policy (Scotland)
If we hoped for some respite from the weight of policy consultations, bills and legislation that confronted us in 2023, the barrage has continued unabated so far this year. Current activity extends across Managing Deer for Climate and Nature, an upcoming...
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By Mike Swan, GWCT Senior Advisor
This article originally appeared in Shooting Times
“Your dogs won’t like it when they come to stay; that kennel stinks.” So said my father almost 40 years ago. He had given up keeping dogs by then, but there was still a kennel at the bottom of his garden, so tha...
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Photo by Liz Cutting
The latest survey of the UK’s resident Woodcock population has shown that in the past ten years the Scottish population has dropped from around 30,000 birds in 2013, to just over 20,000 in 2023.
The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) and the British Trust for Ornit...
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The GWCT Scottish Game Fair returns to Scone Palace in Scotland from 1- 3 July with an incredible itinerary of displays, demonstrations, have-a-go attractions and exhibitors covering everything from fishing and shooting to gundogs and falcons.
The event is proving to be very popular this year a...
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