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Gamekeeping & Conservation

Spring sowing: the best cover crops for different land types

Royal Mark cover crop

Ben Dolbear

Ben Dolbear from Bright Seeds takes a look at spring sowing and helps you match the best crop selection with your specific land type.

A mountain hare

Shining a light on mountain hares

James Swyer

A bluebell wood

How to create a thriving woodland

Alex Hatton

BGA auditing at a shoot

What to expect from a BGA audit

Sporting Shooter

Rupert introducing the estate to Sparsholt students

Shooting-related qualifications

Emily Damment

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Like all members of the corvid family, magpies are extraordinarily intelligent birds

Blow to Welsh bird conservation as corvids removed from GL

Emily Damment

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Shooters walking through woodland

Boosting conservation on your shoot: linear land features

Alex Hatton

Oblivious to the furore surrounding it, a hen harrier soars majestically through a blue sky

Grouse moor management

Protecting Britain's uplands

Tim Weston

A manmade pond

How to create a wildfowl pond on your land

Alex Hatton

A man holding a handful of bird seed

Mid-tier funding can benefit keepers as well as farmers

Ben Dolbear

Rook Guardian bird of Stonehenge, Corvus frugilegus, Corvidae member, passerine order. Range Scandin

Regulating the countryside: fact over emotion

Dr Marnie Lovejoy

A gamekeeper walking down a field margin with a bucket of feed

Shooting terminology: should we change it?

Tim Weston

Burning dead heather so new shoots grow to feed the grouse. North Yorkshire Moors. England

Grouse moor management

New research confirms controlled burning increases carbon storage soil

Emily Damment

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A gamekeeper filling a feeder

Gamekeeping and Wildlife management courses removed by 2023

Emily Damment

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Lone African elephant bull walks through the green savannah in the Kruger Park, South Africa

Trophy hunting import ban: evidence-based or knee-jerk reaction?

Conor O'Gorman

A hen harrier

Grouse moor management

A record year for hen harriers thanks to gamekeepers!

Tim Weston

A cover crop

Cover cropping & New Environmental Land Management Schemes

Ben Dolbear

Merlin (Falco columbarius) North Yorkshire,England,September,2015

Uni students learn about conservation from moorland gamekeepers

Emily Damment

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Blood sample with Bird Flu positive

Bird Flu prevention zone declared across Great Britain

Emily Damment

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A group of shooters and beaters walking away from the camera on a game shooting day

Jeremy Clarkson stands up for game shooting in The Times

Emily Damment

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A group of game shooters walking away from the camera

General Licences

Wild Justice: a timeline of attacks on shooting

Emily Damment

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A male merlin in flight

Raptors and grouse moor management: the real story

James Swyer

A graph showing the numbers of successful hen harrier nests, chicks fledged and breeding attempts

Best year for hen harrier breeding since 60s, 79% of nests on grouse moors

Emily Damment

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Three barn owl chicks in a nest in a barn

Gamekeepers celebrate fledging of three barn owls

Emily Damment

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Heather is bloom over the North York Moors National Park photographed at dawn and in summer near the

New paper on sustainability of driven grouse shooting

Emily Damment

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Forestry thinned out for regeneration

Gamekeeping diary: the challenges of 2021

Paul Howard

The game meat market: challenges for the 2021/22 season

Liam Stokes

Cover crop grown by a gamekeeper; cover benefits game birds but also smaller, threatened farm and garden birds

Supporting evidence-based conservation at GWCT Annual Ball 2021

Emily Damment

Young pheasants feeding from a blue plastic drum style pheasant feeder

Rising costs: how to provide the right diet for your gamebirds

Richard Leach

A Eurasian Lynx photographed from the neck up

Predator rewilding: the impact on the British countryside & wildlife

Tim Weston