Blogs

There is a lot of focus on Woodcock at present because of concerns over declining resident populations, so not surprisingly when we started working at GWSDF Auchnerran a couple of years ago, we began surveys to see how many Woodcock we had on the farm.

The wildlife present in any given landscape is determined by the characteristics of that landscape, but what are the characteristics that are most influential, especially for farmland species where the conflict between profitable food production and wildife conservation has played out most forcefully over the past half century or so?

The time has arrived for the Game Fair to descend on Hatfield House. As in previous years, The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust is looking forward to welcoming its members to the stand (F898) on all three days (Friday, July 28 to Sunday, July 30).

On a warm summers evening on the 20^th of July, the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust joined with Orvis to host their first ever fly fishing event.

More than 50 people recently enjoyed a farm walk at one of the North Sea Region (NSR) Interreg PARTRIDGE project’s demonstration sites in the Netherlands.

On Thursday 6^th July the Oakbank team hosted an open day at Rotherfield farms to show how the habitat work being undertaken is integral to the grey partridge reintroduction project.

With Sir David Attenborough today voicing his concern for UK butterfly populations I was reminded of some of the findings from our 2005 study into the effects of pheasant management at wood edges.

Francis Buner reports on a good year for barn owls at Rotherfield.

Every year, in the third week of June, a team of GWCT scientists travel to Sussex, to roam a large area of farmland stretching 11 miles across the South Downs. They are collecting data for the Sussex study, a long-running project that is one of the cornerstones of the GWCT’s research. It all began in 1968 and has provided a wealth of important data on the impact of farming methods, policy and conservation techniques.

Eleven partners from the Interreg North Sea Region (NSR) PARTRIDGE project, led by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust, met in Germany between June 27 and 29 for their third meeting.