Press Releases - May 2013

The Scottish Game Fair is celebrating its silver anniversary and we want you to be part of it!

Glemham Hall in Suffolk is to host an open-air Shakespeare production on Sunday 30 June, to raise funds for wildlife research.

For the first time British scientists have proved that migrating woodcock from the UK are travelling enormous distances to breed. It is estimated that one particular woodcock called ‘Monkey’ has travelled at least 39,000 km in the course of his short life time.

"We need to work together for wildlife recovery right now," says Teresa Dent, Chief Executive of the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) in response to the launch of the alarming State of Nature report by a coalition of wildlife organisations today, Wednesday 22nd May.

Minister for Environment, Paul Wheelhouse MSP visited the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust’s (GWCT) Scottish Grey Partridge Project at Whitburgh Farms, Midlothian today (Tuesday, May 21) viewing research and conservation for this vulnerable species.

Will Garfit, the extraordinary artist, illustrator and author, who has also developed a 70 acre disused gravel pit in Cambridgeshire into an award winning shoot, fisheries and wildlife reserve, will be an entertaining and amusing speaker at a charity event dedicated to one of our most threatened bird species, the wild grey partridge, on Tuesday 11th June at the RAF Club in Piccadilly, London.

Time is running out for anyone wishing to book on the grey partridge training days run by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) Advisory Service.

Business, wildlife charities and farmers are uniting in the Yorkshire Wolds in an effort to boost the prospects for one of this country’s fastest declining birds; the wild grey partridge.

One of the biggest countryside events to be organised in Nottingham will take place on Saturday 29th June at North Lodge Farm, Widmerpool, Nottingham by kind permission of Chris and Julia Butterfield, the fair aims to raise funds for important wildlife conservation research.