GWCT News Blog

Guest blog on behalf of Rob Marrs, Emeritus Professor at the University of Liverpool and President of the Heather Trust.

Current farming policy may be imperfect but it has not stopped many committed farmers, from showing that abundant wildlife and commercial farming can go together.

The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust and Holts Auctioneers are working together to offer a solution to what to do with your guns when there’s no one in the house to use them anymore. 

In order to counter some of the myths around heather burning and its impact on the uplands, we have identified five common confusions around controlled fire.

A fantastic effort from farmers across the UK has helped secure a best-ever year for the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust’s (GWCT) Big Farmland Bird Count (BFBC).

We respond to the announcement in February 2019 from Roseanna Cunningham MSP, Cabinet Secretary for the Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform, that the Eurasian or European beaver would be granted protected species status in Scotland from 1 May 2019.

A new paper underlines the importance of unlocking the conflict that has driven the illegal killing of harriers, a point first made by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust in 1998.