GWCT Annual Review 2016 - eBook

A full report of the activities of the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust during the year 2016.

This issue includes:

The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust Council and County Chairmen

George Richard (Dick) Potts 1939-2017

Chairman and Chief Executive’s report

Our policies

Advisory and education 

Fundraising

Director of Research’s report

Fisheries research

• River Frome salmon population
• Salmon redd spawning study

Lowland game research

• Gapeworm in pheasants
• Magpie predation on songbirds

Wetland research

• Breeding wader recovery in the Avon Valley
• How effective are fallow plots for breeding lapwings?
• The distribution and decline of breeding woodcock

Biometrics and partridge research

• Partridge Count Scheme
• The Rotherfield Demonstration Project
• Sussex Study – long-term insect trends
• Grey partridges at Balgonie
• National Gamebag Census: trends in deer and boar

Upland research

• Uplands monitoring in 2016
• Heather burning and red grouse
• Expanding black grouse range
• Capercaillie declines in Scotland
• Red grouse and hen harriers on Langholm Moor

Farmland research

• Agri-environment schemes and swallows
• QuESSA – the benefits of nature

Research and demonstration farms

• Allerton Project: game and songbirds in 2016
• The farming year at the Allerton Project in 2016
• Allerton Project: the benefits of cover crops
• The Scottish Demonstration Farm – Auchnerran
• Auchnerran: game and songbird counts in 2016

Research projects by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust in 2016

Scientific publications in 2016

Financial report for 2016 

Staff of the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust in 2016

External committees with GWCT representation