2025

New GWCT CEO Nick von Westenholz reflects back on his first three months with the Trust.

The government’s decision to prohibit the sale and use of lead ammunition, is therefore good for the game management sector, the wider countryside and its wildlife.

Curlew Connections Wales aims to tackle the key issues driving the low breeding success of curlew in Wales, monitoring and understanding curlew populations, implementing nest protection, predator management and habitat works.

Are you planning on visiting Ragley Hall for The Game Fair on 25-27 July? We would love to see you there and have lots going on at our stand. You can find us at stand number E1121.

Thank you to everyone who entered the competition and congratulations to our fantastic winners and runners-up! We wanted to see your unique interpretation of ‘Nature’s Gift,’ and you certainly delivered! From majestic birds to cheeky mammals, and stunning scenery, we were blown away by the range and variety of entries.

Take part in the biggest annual survey of the shooting community, the Game Shooting Census. 

At the start of the year Wild Justice once again launched a petition calling for the ban of driven grouse shooting, and in May this petition gained the 100,000 signatures necessary for the topic to be debated by Parliament. Yesterday evening MPs gathered in Westminster Hall to debate the issue.

Often many shoots attempt to re-establish grey partridges through releasing. However, re-establishment efforts are prolonged, labour-intensive and expensive operations with no guarantee of success.

The PepsiCo FAB (Farming Arable Biodiversity) project launched with ambitious goals. Building on the success of the Interreg PARTRIDGE project, we set out to show that the same principles could be applied more broadly at other farms across Fife and Angus.

A lot of our local Farmer Clusters create habitats to help with breeding success and overwinter survival. One of these is the Cranborne Chase Farmer Cluster, where members of our Farmland Ecology team are monitoring their breeding success, to investigate their use of farmland habitats whilst foraging for invertebrate prey for their chicks.