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By Matt Goodall, GWCT Cymru Advisor and Head of Education
On 16 May, final amendments were considered for the Agriculture (Wales) Bill in the Senedd. This bill outlines the Welsh Government’s proposal to prohibit the use of any snare (including licensed use) or other cable restraint. A previous b...
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By Henrietta Appleton, Policy Officer (England)
Whilst there was much to be positive about in the recent announcement by the Defra Secretary of State on the 2024 SFI offer in terms of its support for farming (see Comprehensive new SFI scheme a big step forward – the GWCT response), we are disappo...
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By Fiona Torrance, Farmland Biodiversity Advisor, GWCT Scotland
Last year I was given the unenviable challenge of developing farmer clusters in Scotland. Although farmer clusters have been going in England since 2012 and have been immensely successful (with over 100 connected to GWCT now establis...
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By Fiona Torrance, GWCT Scotland Farmland Biodiversity Advisor and Project Manager for the PepsiCo FAB project
Historically, Scottish agri-environmental schemes have found it difficult to find a balance between establishing measures for biodiversity and ensuring that the system itself works for f...
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This week saw another significant and exciting development in the life of the Allerton Project: we opened our newly build accommodation to our first guests – very fittingly GWCT staff coming to help with our research work.
It’s been a long journey to get here, but it completes a long-held ambiti...
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Written by Jonathan Reynolds, Head of Predation Control Studies as part of a two-part series. Read part two here.
Part one - The thought process
This week sees the publication of a very important paper by GWCT scientists, one that has been a long time in the making. First author Tom Porteus worke...
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GWCT Research
Three documents have been published recently that review the ecological effects of pheasant and red-legged partridge releasing:
In August, a comprehensive report commissioned by Natural England and the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (Madden & Sage, ‘NE revie...
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By Mike Swan, GWCT Head of Education
Lets start by noting the words Predation Control rather than predator. In managing game and wildlife, how many predators you kill is of no great relevance; rather it is the predation that you prevent that matters. As a consequence, shooting odd random predato...
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A spectacular celebration of conservation and the countryside for over three decades, The GWCT Scottish Game Fair, sponsored by NFU Mutual, will return to Scone Palace in Perthshire this year from Friday 24 to Sunday 26 September, for its 32nd year.
The three-day event attracts over 30,000 visit...
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By Mike Swan, GWCT Head of Education
6 minute read
Planting trees is very fashionable these days, and most people think it is good conservation practice. Aside from replacing what our ancestors felled, there is also a halo of virtue because of carbon capture and global warming. Like all such fas...
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