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GWCT Scotland is excited to announce the launch of the Scottish Game Awards 2024, a new initiative designed to celebrate the outstanding contributions of sporting estates, game dealers, gamekeepers, and ghillies in supporting people, jobs, and nature. These awards are a collaborative effort between Scottish Land & Estates (SLE), GWCT Scotland, and Scotland’s Regional Moorland Groups (SRMGs).
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To help protect our curlew and reverse the decline, the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust has launched an appeal for funding to expand our research into the north of England, where the species is doing better than elsewhere in the UK, to understand regional variation in foraging behaviour and breeding success.
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The Environmental Farmers Group has launched its latest and largest equalisation cell including catchments in Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire. Over 170 farmers gathered at the Allerton Project in Leicestershire and Courteenhall Estate in Northamptonshire to launch the new Central England cell of the EFG.
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A £100,000 grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund has been awarded to help establish the Peakland Environmental Farmers (PEF) group which currently represents 77 land managers covering 40,000 hectares in the Dark and Southwest Peaks.
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The Missing Salmon Alliance, a collective of passionate conservation organisations with a common interest in improving the plight of Atlantic salmon, is demanding greater fish protection measures and effective mitigation of major fish kills set to take place at EDF Energy Hinkley Point C.
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Nestlé UK and Ireland has announced a new partnership with The GWCT Allerton Project, a research farm in Leicestershire with an award-winning blueprint for future rural landscapes.
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The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust’s (GWCT) demonstration shoot at Loddington in Leicestershire has passed the Aim to Sustain (A2S) Game Assurance scheme with flying colours.
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The 2024 edition of the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust’s Big Farmland Bird Count has officially begun, and it is now time to take part.
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“Sitting with some of the farmers' children and pointing out birds to them is so rewarding. Building friendships with the farmers and their families is great and having an open door - or field - to return any time to birdwatch is priceless,” says bird expert and volunteer counter Andrew Goodall.
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This year the annual GWCT Game Conference, Game 2024, is taking place in the north of the country for the first time. The conference is jam-packed with informative, topical talks from an excellent range of guest speakers and GWCT experts, and ticket sales support the vital research and essential work of the GWCT.
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