Apr 30, 2025
Professor Rory Putman and deer expert Niall Rowantree discuss Scotland's next big deer problem: sika. The Scottish government has successfully wiped out large numbers of iconic Scottish red deer. In their place are coming a new, invasive species, Japanese sika. More a horde than a herd, our experts expect they will...
Apr 19, 2025
Ian Grindy from the Gamekeepers Welfare Trust tells the story of the charity and explains why it is needed more than ever. He talks to Charlie Jacoby in the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre 2024.
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Apr 19, 2025
Ben Harrower from BH Wildlife Consultancy uses a thermal drone for a unique aerial view of how the six UK deer species populations, and our wild boar, are expanding and contracting across the UK. As part of our filming for A Year in the Life of Sika, Ben covers all aspects of his work from the advances in drone tech to...
Apr 19, 2025
They shot 5,000 rabbits in one day in Shropshire and 7,000 in one day at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire. The rabbit has had a relatively short but dramatic history in the UK, from Roman food source through population explosions, and becoming one of the most prized quarry species of the great Victorian shots. Shooting...