Giving nature a helping hand

“Yes, but you only do it for the pheasants, really.” How many times have I heard those words from critics of shooting when I describe the benefits of game management to conservation? My standard response is to ask what is wrong with that. After all, it is getting the job done.

I’d like to think that most game managers are conservationists at heart. I’m certainly only doing my advisory service job after 40 years with the GWCT because I believe in the conservation spin-off from the help I give. I’m also very much for conservation in its own right, so always on the lookout for things