GWCT Annual Review 2017 - eBook

A full report of the activities of the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust during the year 2017.

This issue includes:

The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust Council and County Chairmen

Chairman’s report

Our policies

The Allerton Project

Advisory and education

 Fundraising  Director of Research’s report  

Predation research

• The ecology of foxes in the Avon Valley

 Fisheries research

• River Frome salmon population
• SAMARCH – salmonids in estuaries and coastal waters
• Could bigger Atlantic salmon smolts be better?

Lowland game research

• The effect of releasing pheasants on Exmoor shoots
• Non-shooting losses of released pheasants

Wetland research

• Lapwing nest predation in the Avon Valley
• The diet of lapwing chicks reared on farmland
• Managing resident and wintering woodcock

Biometrics and partridge research

• Partridge Count Scheme
• The Rotherfield Demonstration Project
• Monitoring grey partridges on the Sussex Study
• Interreg North Sea project PARTRIDGE
• How many birds are shot in the UK?

Upland research

• Uplands monitoring in 2017
• Respiratory cryptosporidiosis in red grouse
• Grey partridges on hill farms in north-east England
• Impact of ticks on red grouse breeding success
• Hen harrier diet on Langholm Moor

Farmland research

• Foraging bats and agri-environment schemes
• Insect sampling on the Sandringham Estate

Research and demonstration farms

• Allerton Project: game and songbirds in 2017
• The farming year at the Allerton Project in 2017
• Allerton Project: the Sustainable Intensification research Platform
• The Scottish Demonstration Farm – Auchnerran
• Auchnerran: game and songbird counts in 2017
• Auchnerran: trials of new Laser Fence technology

Research projects by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust in 2017

Scientific publications in 2017

Financial report for 2017

Staff of the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust in 2017

External committees with GWCT representation