Press Releases - June 2022

The number of wild adult Atlantic salmon returning to the River Frome in southern England in 2021 was down almost 20% on its 10-year average.

The GWCT Scottish Game Fair takes place once again from 1 – 3 July in the grounds of Scone Palace, Perthshire and new to the Fair this year is a three-day storytelling attraction in keeping with 2022 being billed as the National Year of Stories. Titled Listen to the Land the mini storytelling festival is sponsored by NatureScot and Bidwells. First up launching her new book Captain Partridge and the Farm Monsters’ Feast and reading from it in the children’s storytelling marquee, The Nest, will be Katrina Candy.

On 25 June GWCT’s Wales’s Ceredigion committee is offering farmers an opportunity to hear from industry experts, including Dr Catherine Nakielny, on wildlife, biodiversity and soil health, at leading Welsh dairy farm Dyffryn Arth.

A new habitat measure developed by scientists from the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) to boost the fortunes of the beloved, red-listed grey partridge, is proving a big hit with insects too.

A study of breeding pairs of redshank – a threatened native wading bird species – whose population is recovering in the Avon Valley in Hampshire, has shown one intrepid individual travel more than 100km to Wales for the winter. Its epic journey is helping scientists from the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust to understand more about the movement and habits of this ‘amber-listed’ bird species, to help better protect it in future.

A landmark event coordinated by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust, the Moorland Association and Fitzwilliam Wentworth Estate has brought together, for the first time, the people and organisations responsible for managing England’s protected uplands to seek a common vision for the future of these precious landscapes.

A new free online tool, launched this week by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT), could help shoots of all sizes better understand their impact on biodiversity and make improvements to boost wildlife and habitats.

1st June 2022, saw the release of the official Scottish Government Salmon and Sea Trout Fishery Statistics for the 2021 Season.