Press Releases - March 2023

The GWCT welcomes the UK Climate Change Committee’s 2023 report and its acknowledgement that the risk of wildfire will increase significantly in future decades.

The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) has today highlighted its serious concerns over the impact of the 200-barrel fluid leak into Poole Harbour on protected migratory fish.

Environment minister Mark Spencer MP, Shadow DEFRA Minister Daniel Zeichner MP, and Baroness Bakewell, Lib Dem Environment spokesperson, were among MPs and policy makers who met moorland managers at the Palace of Westminster recently (23 March 2023) for the launch of Real Wilders the GWCT’s new collection of case studies on the Working Conservationists preserving the UK’s precious uplands and their wildlife.

A countrywide bird survey is using its 90th birthday to call on farmers and land managers to join and commit to supporting wildlife. Since 1933, the Partridge Count Scheme run by the GWCT, has asked volunteers to count grey partridges twice a year and submit their results to a national database.

The leading game management event returns as a face-to-face conference on 28 March for the first time since 2019. Run by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT), the information-packed gathering brings together the industry’s foremost experts and the latest evidence-based game management techniques.