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
• UK’s biggest ever farmland bird count shows farmers committing to conservation
• Land managers’ commitment to endangered waders results in 2021 breeding success
• Proposed Hedgerow Carbon Code could unlock more than £60m income for farmers, as development project receives £81k funding
• “Signs are positive” as River Frome sees highest salmon numbers in eight years, but climate change is having an impact says new report
• New rural group has sustainable future in sights
• Landmark report reveals the impact of gamebird releasing
• Action plan launched to save the curlews in Wales
• Take part in the GWCT Big Farmland Bird Count and make a real difference to the UK’s songbirds
• Mountain hare densities in the Peak District could be five times higher than previous estimates, according to new findings
• Biodiversity recovery, clean water in the River Avon, and net zero farming by 2040 – new Environmental Farmers Group sets out its bold ambitions
• 2022 Big Farmland Bird Count: 26 red-listed species sighted as land managers help build picture of the state of farmland birds
• Hampshire redshank’s epic journey to Wales helps scientists understand habits of amber-list species
• Significant drop in Atlantic salmon returning to English river confirms 2021 as a poor year for this iconic species – long-term monitoring project’s report shows
• 50 first dates for Salisbury's most eligible water voles
• The extinction clock approaches midnight for Scotland’s capercaillie
• Hedgelaying World Record Attempt creates wildlife haven
• Hedgerow Carbon Code
• A new place in the country for Ratty and friends
• Sixfold increase in farmland bird numbers on Welsh cover crop project sites
• 90 years and counting: historic citizen-science scheme calls on land managers to help red-listed grey partridge
• Poole Harbour oil spill could have serious consequences for threatened migratory fish, say GWCT experts
• 2023 GWCT Big Farmland Bird Count results highlight the conservation work done by thousands of land managers