Blogs
25/3/2024 in: GWCT News Blog under: Advice
Defra have now provided details of the 2024 licensing arrangements for gamebird releasing and management on and near Special Protection Areas (SPAs).
25/3/2024 in: GWCT News Blog under: Action for Curlew , Waders
There are few more iconic sights than a curlew in flight, but without intervention it could be something future generations will never get to enjoy. The curlew with its distinctive haunting call, is now one of our most rapidly declining breeding bird species in the UK...
22/3/2024 in: GWCT News Blog
Don't miss this rare chance to win a spectacular day’s fishing for 6 on the flagship 'Ginger Beer' beat along the River Test in Hampshire.
20/3/2024 in: GWCT News Blog under: GWCT Scotland , Hen harrier/Grouse shooting
The Last Keeper is a feature-length film that will draw huge attention to this nuanced debate in a way that no film by us, or any of the other Scottish organisations, could achieve.
19/3/2024 in: GWCT News Blog under: Events
Former Defra minister and GWCT Chairman Sir Jim Paice set out the theme of the Trust’s annual game management conference, Game 24, in Leyburn, North Yorkshire, by making clear the risks for the shooting community of stalling on self-regulation.
19/3/2024 in: GWCT News Blog under: GWCT Wales
Located on the North Wales coast in Colwyn Bay, Bryn Williams at Porth Eirias was the beautiful location for the NE Wales’s GWCT Committee event ‘Game for Conservation’, in the company of local well known farmer and internet influencer Gareth Wyn Jones.
18/3/2024 in: GWCT News Blog under: Gamewise , Woodcock
Chris Heward reports on a fantastic response to the 2023 Breeding Woodcock Survey and despite the conclusions not being straightforward, the results will help inform future woodcock conservation and policy.
14/3/2024 in: GWCT News Blog under: Gamewise
Black grouse in England are now confined to the North Pennines, where low breeding success, habitat fragmentation and landscape configuration means that the remaining population has become increasingly isolated.
13/3/2024 in: GWCT News Blog under: Events , GWCT Wales
An evening full of flavour and conservation was held at Coleg Ceredigion at the end of January.
12/3/2024 in: GWCT News Blog under: GWCT Scotland
The GWCT’s West of Scotland Auction will be held at Òran Mór on Thursday 21st March but the auction website is now live so anyone can bid online!