Press Releases - 2016

Four of Britain's most renowned wildlife artists are to be represented at the Northern Wildlife Art Exhibition in Northumberland this month, and all are kindly donating a percentage of their sales to one of the UK's leading scientific research charities.

School pupils from Milton of Balgonie Primary School are assisting the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust with a project at Balgonie Estates in Fife.  

We look ahead to the 2017 Big Farmland Bird Count which takes place in February.

Caution and conservation are the watch words for wild grey partridges according to the GWCT but this year extra care is needed.

The Head of Farmland Ecology at the GWCT, has been appointed Honorary Professor of Biology at the School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex.

Future shooters and gamekeepers have the opportunity to develop their skills at the GWCT Young Shooters Day in October.  

The GWCT is offering the opportunity to visit an award-winning farm in North Yorkshire for a grey partridge farm walk.

Shoots reported a relatively stable performance for the 2015/2016 season according to the recently published Savills and Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust Shoot Benchmarking Survey.

The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust is inviting shoots across the UK to take part in its annual Shoot Sweepstake Scheme.

Despite a wet spring its been a success for lapwing in the Avon Valley