Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust

News and In-Depth Features

• Bisterne lapwing recovery recognised in Purdey conservation awards
• Study into capercaillie breeding success and dispersal highlights need for landscape-scale intervention to halt decline towards extinction
• Results Day: Farmers unite to deliver a record-breaking bird count
• Could weeds be the answer to reversing insect declines?
• Joint Statement: Antibiotic use in gamebirds MUST fall further
• Farmers and land managers urged to help the GWCT monitor grey partridge numbers
• New wildlife art gallery supporting artists and charity through difficult times
• Welsh juvenile salmon numbers are lower following warmer winters and wetter springs, new research shows
• Gull licensing system requires a change of approach, says conservation charity
• Put Working Conservationists at the heart of conservation policy, says the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
• Private land managers drive lapwing recovery in key breeding ground
• Statement from GWCT Scotland on Scottish Government announcement on Grouse Moor Management Report
• GWCT receives grant of £123,700 from the government’s Green Recovery Challenge Fund
• Barn owl study finds improved breeding performance
• Feeding stations on farms to boost bird numbers project
• Feed trees to sheep to cut greenhouse gases, study suggests
• Land managers play a “crucial role” in UK songbird survival, say organisers of the 2021 GWCT Big Farmland Bird Count, 5-14 February
• Managed burning can benefit peatland, new study suggests
• New partnership formed to save England’s threatened curlews
• Joint fisheries conservation NGO position statement on Eurasian beaver re-introduction into England and Wales