GWCT News Blog

The recent purchase of Pentwyn Farm by the Radnorshire Wildlife Trust has raised much discussion across farming communities where farms are being bought up by non-farming interests to plant trees or focus purely on biodiversity.

The plan, launching later this year, sets out how to avoid curlew becoming extinct as breeding bird in Wales by 2033 and the wider benefits to society, benefits for key species of conservation concern and benefits for climate change that flow from management for Curlew.

We respond to the recent decision taken by the Welsh Government to 'bring forward legislation to amend the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 to ban the use of snares and glue traps'.

The Peridx Spring Trap has now been added to the list of approved traps for stoat control in Wales under General Licences 019 and 020. 

A public consultation was launched on Thursday 19th August by NRW, on the approach to regulating the shooting and trapping of wild birds and the destruction of eggs and nests. It includes open questions on their approach and proposals.

Behind the scenes with GWCT Wales Projects Manager Lee Oliver as part of the Elwy Valley SMS Project developing bark stripping survey methodologies, working alongside Dr Craig Shuttleworth from The Red Squirrel Trust.

Guest blog by Amanda Perkins, Curlew Country Manager.

The biggest talk in town at present has been the Australian trade deal.  I have been reluctant for us (GWCT Wales) to get into this debate as trade is not within our Charitable Objectives. 

After the Nant Gwtheyrn feral goat project was featured on Countryfile, some may ask why are GWCT doing a project on goats. Is this part of GWCT’s charitable objectives? How does it fit in with the rest of our work?

Despite the drive for rewilding in the UK, farmers still feel pressured to keep their hedges and fields neat and tidy.