Press Releases - December 2024

Twenty black grouse have successfully been translocated from their stronghold in the North Pennines to the North York Moors by researchers from the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) to help expand their range.

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The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust’s (GWCT) fisheries team have begun a new project to catch and tag eels in the River Frome in Dorset in a first ever bid to better understand the movements of this fish species in our river and waterways and monitor the start of their migration from the UK and across the Atlantic Ocean.