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The balance of game shot in the UK has undergone a considerable change in the past 50 years, as a study produced by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) shows. For several game species such as pheasant, red-legged partridge and roe deer, the numbers shot have increased in the past 50...
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Written by Amelia Corvin-Czarnodolski, PARTRIDGE Placement Student 2021-2022
Since scraping the side of my dad’s ALL4 Mini Countryman in lockdown last year, I have had a deep-set fear of driving big cars that are not my own. Fortunately, this hasn’t been much of a problem since I bought my own li...
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On Monday 27th March Natural Resources Wales (NRW), on behalf of Welsh Government, launched a 12-week public consultation on their proposals to licence gamebird releasing in Wales. They propose to move pheasant and red-legged partridge onto Schedule 9 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 whi...
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By Rebecca Mills, Scottish Lowlands placement student
This blog is a follow on from my last blog about winter bird surveys which you can find here.
What are breeding bird surveys?
Breeding bird surveys are an essential part of biodiversity monitoring in the UK, to understand the changing numbers...
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With many of us confined to our homes, much has been made of wildlife ‘returning’ to urban areas – mountain goats roaming the streets of Llandudno for example – but what of the British countryside they usually call home? Approached by The Telegraph for his thoughts, Mike Swan, our trusty head of...
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Henry Cheape (letter, Apr 21) highlights the importance of planting trees in the right place. With the government wedded to increasing planting to 30,000 hectares a year with trees by 2025, there are plenty of opportunities for expanding woodland cover that do not require the repurposing of la...
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Rotherfield Shoot
After 10 years the GWCT’s demonstration shoot at Rotherfield Park Estate in Hampshire came to an end in February. The aim of the shoot was to show how grey partridges and wider farmland biodiversity could be restored alongside running a pheasant shoot. Under the management of Ma...
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Steve Moreby’s career with the GWCT has spanned more than 40 years. During this time he has studied the diet of grey partridges and red grouse, and looked at agricultural management and its effects on insects. Along the way he has trained up a legion of young ecologists in insect identification, ...
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This year the Biometrics team has three students who are on placement here at the GWCT. Rachel Cook and George Scarisbrick from Bangor University will be working with the GIS team and moving to Wetlands during the fieldwork season in April; Ellie Raynor (from Manchester Metropolitan University) w...
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Our new GWCT artist Ellie Louise shares her story about her love of both art and wildlife, and how one can raise awareness of the other.
The 27-year-old began her journey specialising in gundog portraiture, but she has recently started to branch out into Britain’s gamebirds, as seen in our new a...
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