Press Releases - July 2018

COMMUNITIES in the Strathbraan area of Perthshire approached GWCT in 2016 to help them find ways to improve the breeding and survival chances of wading birds, such as curlew and lapwing, being predated by ravens.

THE Moorland Association and the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) are celebrating the most successful hen harrier breeding season in England for over a decade.

THE Curlew Country project - part of the UK lowland recovery programme - is taking drastic action to help save a threatened species. 

THE desperate need to halt alarming wildlife declines in the Welsh countryside was the theme at today’s Royal Welsh Show at the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) Cymru briefing.

THE GWCT would like to inform its stakeholders there have been several recently reported outbreaks of Newcastle Disease (ND) in commercial poultry and smallholder flocks in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.

A NEW pheasant badge is GWCT’s latest initiative in promoting best practice in game management.

THE Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) is encouraging shoots around the country to join up to its Shoot Sweepstake Initiative in time for the 2018/2019 season.

THE extraordinary conservation successes achieved by private land managers has been captured in a new collection of case studies by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) titled Working Conservationists: The Land Managers Saving British Wildlife.

GIVING FARMERS CONTROL is key to any future agri-environment scheme, according to leading research charity Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT).

A farmer has been recognised by the farming and conservation industry for his outstanding efforts to promote good habitat and environmental management on his farm.