Press Releases - May 2019

ANOTHER great night was enjoyed by all at the GWCT Scottish Auction held at Prestonfield House on Thursday 2 May, generously sponsored by Pentland Landrover, Saffery Champness and Rathbone Investment Management. 

A NEW study has revealed a range of factors that cause a variation in predation by magpies on farmland songbirds.

LEARN about woodland management from leading industry experts at the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust’s (GWCT) Allerton Project in Leicestershire at this information-packed event.

ECOLOGICAL aspirations can be extremely challenging for dairy farmers but increasing the songbird population alongside profitable farming is achievable, according to the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) Wales.

RICHARD Negus has raised £2,200 towards the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust’s (GWCT) vital research into an endangered species, the grey partridge.

BUSHCRAFT expert Ray Mears has pledged his support to the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) campaign that aims to improve awareness and understanding of how the countryside works.

KEEN amateur wildlife photographers with a passion for wildlife have until the end of the month to enter this year's Julian Gardner Awards.

A CURLEW that has been incubated as an egg and reared in its local landscape – a process known as headstarting - has successfully returned home for the first time ever.

THE newly-appointed co-ordinator of the Partridge Count Scheme (PCS) is calling on farmers, gamekeepers and land managers to return their spring counts before it’s too late.

LEADING countryside organisations discussed a range of issues the shooting industry faces at an event in Nottinghamshire last week.