GWCT Annual Review 2015 - eBook

A full report of the activities of the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust during the year 2015.

This issue includes:

The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust Council

Chairman and Chief Executive’s report

Our policies

Advisory and education

Fundraising

Director of Research’s report

Communicating research

• Physician heal thyself – research into practice

Lowland game research

• Corvid control and breeding farmland songbirds
• Hatching success of lapwings in miscanthus

Wetland research

• The status of breeding woodcock in Britain
• Regulation of woodcock energy reserves in winter

Biometrics and partridge research

• Partridge Count Scheme
• The Rotherfield Demonstration Project
• Climate change and the Sussex Study
• National Gamebag Census: woodcock, woodpigeon and pests

Upland research

• Uplands monitoring in 2015
• The effect of buzzard predation on red grouse
• Surveying black grouse leks in England
• Langholm Moor Demonstration Project: year eight

Farmland research

• Bees and agri-environment schemes
• QuESSA – the benefits of nature

The Allerton Project

• Allerton Project: game and songbirds in 2015
• The farming year at the Allerton Project in 2015
• The Welland Valley Partnership
• Approaches to restoring bird abundance

Predation research

• Farewell to the Fenn trap

Fisheries research

• River Frome salmon population
• MorFish – protecting Atlantic salmon
• Sea trout smolts in the River Frome

Research projects by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust in 2015

Scientific publications in 2015

Financial report for 2015

Staff of the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust in 2015

External committees with GWCT representation