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We are offering a rare opportunity to acquire some shooting just south of Edinburgh.
A late addition to the 2022 Scottish Auction, you can bid for 2 guns to join a mixed partridge pheasant day on a well known shoot, in December ’22 or January ’23. The supply of birds to this shoot has not been a...
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With the future of Britain’s agri-environment policy up for debate, the way we incentivise good farmland conservation will be pivotal in reversing the biodiversity declines we’ve seen highlighted across the media this week.
The Agriculture Bill offers a chance to look forward and focus on decisi...
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While we welcome the BBC highlighting the decline of grey partridge in Britain (Short Cuts, Radio 4, 24 March), sadly the reporters have their numbers all wrong. Although numbers have declined by more than 90% since the 1960s, their claim that “today there are only about 100 grey partridges left...
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The GWCT is aware of concern throughout the game and wildlife management sector relating to the Government’s policy to restrict social gatherings of more than six people in England from the 14th September.
Government have stated that details of exemptions will be published shortly, and we underst...
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GWCT wales have teamed up with several farmers to bring you our Big Farmland Bird Count Training days.
Matt Goodall, GWCT Wales Advisor for Wales will be giving a presentation on each farm after coffee, to illustrate what birds we could be seeing during the morning and what more can be done to e...
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The GWCT-led Interreg NSR PARTRIDGE project is running a trans-national survey of the opinions that farmers and hunters have of agri-environmental schemes. One of the chief aims of the PARTRIDGE project is to influence future agri-environment schemes (AES) across our six partner countries – Eng...
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GWCT students Rosa Hicks and Piera Coleman explain why you should do the GWCT Big Farmland Bird Count in February
For the 10th year, the GWCT Big Farmland Bird Count is back, with farmers, land managers and gamekeepers taking to their fields to count some of the iconic British birds that share th...
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Written by Phil Warren, Senior Research Scientist
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Photo credit: Laurie Campbell
In the UK, grey partridges are primarily associated with lowland cereal farms and were common and widespread up until the Second World War. They have since undergone a severe population decline, chief...
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Last week marked the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. So I thought it would be an apt time to reflect on my last few months as a placement student in the Scottish Lowlands research department.
“No day is the same”
Although this expression is greatly overused, in this role, it cou...
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These are the headline questions we are asking in this year’s Game and Conservation Benchmarking Survey. The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust has been involved in the survey for many years, assisting Savills with the conservation element of this important survey.
The survey has...
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