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Following on from the success of the 2025 Pie and Pint nights designed for upland land managers, GWCT Scotland Advisory is offering another series of free evening events in February 2026, focused on lowland game management.

Black grouse translocated to the North York Moors in a bid to expand the range of one of the UK’s rarest birds have successfully bred and fledged a total of 12 chicks in their first breeding season.

The Duke’s Challenge charity event held at Alnwick in Northumberland has raised an unprecedented £685,000 for the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) - the UK’s leading independent wildlife research charity.

A survey of ground nesting birds on around 3,000 acres of moorland in north Northumberland has shown dramatic declines of iconic threatened species 10 years after predation management ceased as part of a controlled experiment spanning two decades.

The latest survey of the UK’s resident woodcock population saw the highest ever participation rate since the count began 20 years ago.

New research by the GWCT has shown that capercaillie numbers in Scotland have nearly halved in ten years, with as few as 304 birds remaining in 2020, compared to 580 in 2010. The figures show capercaillie heading towards extinction unless further measures are put in place to save this iconic bird.

A Northumberland estate is to offer a rare opportunity for members of the public to view its conservation measures this summer. The proceeds raised will go towards funding the UK's leading wildlife research charity.

A countrywide bird survey is using its 90th birthday to call on farmers and land managers to join and commit to supporting wildlife. Since 1933, the Partridge Count Scheme run by the GWCT, has asked volunteers to count grey partridges twice a year and submit their results to a national database.

The leading game management event returns as a face-to-face conference on 28 March for the first time since 2019. Run by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT), the information-packed gathering brings together the industry’s foremost experts and the latest evidence-based game management techniques.

A full-day symposium examining the conservation of Scotland’s four grouse species – red grouse, black grouse, capercaillie and ptarmigan – is taking place on 5 May 2023 at Balhousie Castle, Perth.