GWCT Annual Review 2018 - eBook

A full report of the activities of the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust during the year 2018.

This issue includes:

Welcome

GWCT council and county chairmen

Facing the future challenges

The value of farming for food and the environment

Manydown: The farmland partridge story

Thank you for your support

Tackling challenges with informed evidence

Research and Demonstration Farms

• Allerton Project: game and songbirds in 2018
• Allerton Project: the farming year
• Allerton Project: social science
• Auchnerran: game and songbird counts in 2018
• Auchnerran: the farming year
• The importance of cover at Whitburgh

Fisheries Research

• River Frome salmon population
• Sea trout behaviour in the marine environment
• European grayling recruitment in the River Wylye
• Does capturing and tagging wild salmon smolts affect their survival at sea?
• Juvenile salmonid densities and habitat

Lowland Game Research

• The use of enhanced released pheasants

Wetland Research

• Breeding waders in the Avon Valley
• The value of GPS tracking in woodcock studies

Partridge and Biometrics Research

• Partridge Count Scheme
• The Rotherfield Demonstration Project
• Fifty years of the Sussex Study
• Ground beetles on arable land
• Interreg North Sea project PARTRIDGE
• Trends in commonly released gamebirds

Uplands Research

• Uplands monitoring in 2018
• Heather burning and blanket bog
• Mountain hare abundance
• Respiratory cryptosporidiosis in red grouse
• The recovery of red grouse on Langholm Moor

Farmland Research

• Cereal aphids and barley yellow dwarf virus
• Monitoring woodcock with acoustic recorders

GWCT round-up

• 2018 GWCT research projects
• 2018 GWCT scientific publications
• 2018 GWCT financial report
• 2018 GWCT staff
• External committees with GWCT representation