GWCT News Blog

This article outlines the principles for the safe operation of game shoots in England through reference to relevant Government guidance and regulation. It has been produced to assist those managing game shoots and reduce the risk posed by COVID-19.

James Mawle is passionate about the red-listed black grouse. In 1998 there were only 773 males left in England, but thanks to a conservation project involving land managers on a landscape-scale and joint-led by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust, the decline was reversed.

Spring 2020 has been a very different year for members of the GWCT Wetlands team, as it has been for all of us. 

At the start of July, we set out a challenge, to find 500 new members before the end of the year. I’m delighted to say that, a little over two weeks later, 100 of you have risen to that challenge and signed up.

COVID-19 threatened to cancel long-term fieldwork. Luckily enough, there was one team left at the GWCT that could take on the challenge – two students who didn’t know what they were signing up for.