Press Releases - October 2017

THE deadline for applications to a fund set-up in memory Dr Dick Potts, the former director-general of the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT), has been extended until next year.

ORGANISATIONS involved in shooting and gamebird management have welcomed a big fall in the amount of antibiotic used in the rearing of pheasants and partridges in the UK.

THE Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) would like to inform members  that British authorities are increasingly concerned about the possible return of avian influenza following a number of outbreaks in continental Europe.

A FARM walk round one of the 10 Interreg PARTRIDGE demonstration sites is taking place tomorrow (October 26).

A NEW badge has just been released by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) to raise awareness of a species in danger of extinction.

THE importance of farmers working together to nurture wildlife on their farms was highlighted at a hugely-successful national conference organised by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) in conjunction with Natural England and held in the Royal Geographical Society, London, on 12 October.

THE prestigious RSPB posthumous medal was recently collected by Olga Potts in memory of internationally-recognised ecologist Dick Potts at the charity’s Members’ Day and AGM.

THE future of rural payments, curlew and a brush with woodcock are the topics to be addressed by three key speakers at a Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) drinks party in Shropshire.

THREE medal-winning Olympians are speaking at an event organised by a Fordingbridge-based conservation charity.

APPLICATIONS are now being considered for a fund that was launched in memory of an internationally-recognised scientist, Dick Potts from the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT).