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As Environment Minister Rebecca Pow announces plans to consider the phasing out of lead shot, studies by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) suggest that many shooters are already embracing change.

There is no evidence to substantiate the claim that “hundreds of thousands” of hares are killed during their breeding season each year.

In less than a month, nearly 2000 of you have completed our short one-minute survey on your use of the alternatives to lead ammunition. Looking through your responses, some key themes emerge.

Over recent decades, availability of suitable barn owl nesting cavities has reduced primarily due to loss of large trees with hollows, and modernisation and enclosure of farm buildings. Providing nest boxes within or near to suitable habitat can help to increase breeding success and support local barn owl populations.

Check out the latest news from our GWCT Shoots.

Our Working For Wildlife initiative has shown just how important farmers can be to wildlife recovery.

The public consultation Interim Gamebird Release Licence in England - Defra - Citizen Space on proposals for an interim licensing regime for gamebird releasing and management on European Protected Sites closes on 15th March.

The use of pesticides is hotly debated, but arguments around it are often absolute and lack nuance. The government derogation for farmers to use the neonicotinoid thiamethoxam on sugar beet this year (dependent on evidence of potentially yield threatening levels of pests) created lots of headlines, plenty of outrage and, at the time of writing, 50,597 signatures to reverse the decision.