GWCT News Blog

Scotland’s stunning hills and moors helped inspire a brand-new range of dog drying coat from award-winning business Dogrobes.

The legend that Saint Melangell went to Wales to escape a forced marriage may be true but Jim Perrin’s claim that grey partridges run in the lanes around her church, is false (Country diary: no sanctuary for hunted partridge at Melangell’s church, July 14^th).

The GWCT is looking for volunteers to take part in our Who Wants to be a Conservationaire quiz at the Carter Jonas Game Fair Theatre.

José Souto, one of the leading game chefs in the UK, with an unrivalled knowledge of harvesting, preparing and cooking game, is preparing to launch his new book, Feathers: The Game Larder, at The Game Fair this year.

José Souto is one of the leading game chefs in the UK, with an unrivalled knowledge of harvesting, preparing and cooking game. At The Game Fair this year he will be demonstrating his versatility and creativity in The Field Kitchen Theatre by cooking not only with game, but with wild salmon from Alaska too.

Yorkshireman who set up country’s first dog crèche of its kind prepares to run it again for 20^th year in a row.

In the first of a new series on Working Conservationists, Joe Dimbleby visits beef farmer James Mulleneux whose shoot is helping to restore woodland with advice from the GWCT.

Our fox-tagging work in the Avon Valley got underway just as the bitterly cold ‘Beast from the East’ hit towards the back-end of February, and it’s just drawn to a close amid one of the hottest, driest summers we’ve experienced for years. 

Do you know a lot about Shooting and Conservation?

If so, why not put your ‘knowledge’ to the ultimate test in a Who Wants to be a Conservationaire quiz at this year’s Game Fair.

Bees’ Needs Week is an annual event coordinated by Defra and delivered in partnership with several charities, businesses, conservation groups and academic institutions to help raise awareness of bees and other pollinators. Events to celebrate insects are taking place across England from 9-15^th July.