Short Courses
13/05/2026 Certificate in Sustainable Land Management
The Allerton Project LE7 9XE, The Allerton Project
Cost £1245 +VAT includes catering and exam fees
31/07/2020 Corvid Control - Law and best practice in Scotland
Online, Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
Cost £72
In-Depth Features
News
- GWCT’s curlew conservation project in Wales given nearly £1m
- New Forest curlew becomes the oldest living bird of its species in the UK
- New research reveals badgers are major predators of red-listed waders
- New GWCT project to track common snipe’s migration routes to breeding grounds
- Annual salmon count shows record low numbers of fish for a second consecutive year
- The GWCT welcomes two new Ambassadors
- Black grouse breed in the North York Moors after re-introduction
- New AI system is transforming curlew monitoring
- GWCT Big Farmland Bird Count shows farmer-led conservation is working
- New research shows rise in predators is threatening red-listed birds with extinction
- New research shows human food waste is fuelling foxes and putting pressure on threatened bird species
- Big Farmland Bird Count 2025 - here's how you can help
- Annual salmon count shows lowest number of juveniles for more than 20 years
- Expanding the range of black grouse in the Uplands
- An increase in Golden Eagle records provides some positive news
- Insect decline of 37% over 50 years shows support for farmers is crucial to biodiversity recovery
- Breeding Woodcock Survey shows an ongoing decline despite some small regional increases
- The Solent’s breeding coastal birds given a helping hand
- Breeding Woodcock Survey participation breaks all previous records
- Clever lapwings use cover to hide in plain sight
- Capercaillie faces extinction despite conservation efforts to reverse decline
- New study shows grouse moor management is helping to slow curlew decline
- 2023 GWCT Big Farmland Bird Count results highlight the conservation work done by thousands of land managers
- Poole Harbour oil spill could have serious consequences for threatened migratory fish, say GWCT experts
- 90 years and counting: historic citizen-science scheme calls on land managers to help red-listed grey partridge
- Sixfold increase in farmland bird numbers on Welsh cover crop project sites
- A new place in the country for Ratty and friends
- Hedgelaying World Record Attempt creates wildlife haven
- The extinction clock approaches midnight for Scotland’s capercaillie
- 50 first dates for Salisbury's most eligible water voles
- 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
- Hampshire redshank’s epic journey to Wales helps scientists understand habits of amber-list species
- 2022 Big Farmland Bird Count: 26 red-listed species sighted as land managers help build picture of the state of farmland birds
- Biodiversity recovery, clean water in the River Avon, and net zero farming by 2040 – new Environmental Farmers Group sets out its bold ambitions
- Mountain hare densities in the Peak District could be five times higher than previous estimates, according to new findings
- Take part in the GWCT Big Farmland Bird Count and make a real difference to the UK’s songbirds
- Action plan launched to save the curlews in Wales
- Landmark report reveals the impact of gamebird releasing
- “Signs are positive” as River Frome sees highest salmon numbers in eight years, but climate change is having an impact says new report
- Proposed Hedgerow Carbon Code could unlock more than £60m income for farmers, as development project receives £81k funding
- Land managers’ commitment to endangered waders results in 2021 breeding success
- UK’s biggest ever farmland bird count shows farmers committing to conservation
- Joint fisheries conservation NGO position statement on Eurasian beaver re-introduction into England and Wales
- New partnership formed to save England’s threatened curlews
- Managed burning can benefit peatland, new 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
- Feed trees to sheep to cut greenhouse gases, study suggests
- Feeding stations on farms to boost bird numbers project
- Barn owl study finds improved breeding performance
- GWCT receives grant of £123,700 from the government’s Green Recovery Challenge Fund
- Statement from GWCT Scotland on Scottish Government announcement on Grouse Moor Management Report
- Private land managers drive lapwing recovery in key breeding ground
- Put Working Conservationists at the heart of conservation policy, says the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
- Gull licensing system requires a change of approach, says conservation charity
- Welsh juvenile salmon numbers are lower following warmer winters and wetter springs, new research shows
- New wildlife art gallery supporting artists and charity through difficult times
- Farmers and land managers urged to help the GWCT monitor grey partridge numbers
- Joint Statement: Antibiotic use in gamebirds MUST fall further
- Could weeds be the answer to reversing insect declines?
- Results Day: Farmers unite to deliver a record-breaking bird count
- Study into capercaillie breeding success and dispersal highlights need for landscape-scale intervention to halt decline towards extinction
- Bisterne lapwing recovery recognised in Purdey conservation awards
