Press Releases - 2016

Special guest speakers include Angela Smith MP, who was involved in the debate on whether to add fluoride to water. She continues to take interest in countryside matters, recently serving as Shadow Minister for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

This year the count not only beat the last two years’ records, but also included the spotting of several rare birds over the week. The highlights were a ring ouzel and snow bunting.

Despite the cold and wet weather, this February over 60 Herefordshire farmers and other land managers got together and counted the birds on their land for this year’s Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust Big Farmland Bird Count.

The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust are proud to announce one of their senior researchers, Dr Jonathan Reynolds, will be delivering the prestigious Cranbrook Lecture which precedes The Mammal Society’s annual Spring Conference.

The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) are joining together with BASC to provide a two day course in shoot management and shooting techniques.

This February saw a flock of farmers, gamekeepers and land managers join together to count their farmland birds. With nearly 1,000 farmers spotting 130 species, the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust’s (GWCT) 2016 Big Farmland Bird Count (BFBC) has been an incredible success.

Unless the sensible and practical guidelines contained in the Welsh Government Code of best practice on the use of snares in fox control are followed to the letter, the legal entitlement to snare foxes in Wales will be consigned to the history books. 

Making changes to the early lives of young pheasants can help prevent them dying needlessly, University of Exeter researchers have found.

The forever popular illustrated notecards are running low in stock, so the GWCT has decided to run a competition for their followers to design something new.

The Heather Trust and the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust (Scotland) have announced applications are open for the 2016 Golden Plover Award for Moorland Management.