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The Levens Team Challenge in Cumbria has raised over £6,000 for its organisers, the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT). The annual event was held this year on Sunday 27^th May, kindly hosted by Richard and Naomi Bagot. The proceeds will go towards funding the GWCT’s ground-breaking conservation research.

A RALLYING cry to halt shocking wildlife declines in the countryside was made to members of the Welsh Assembly from conservationists at the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) Cymru.

FOR the second year running, the stunning grounds of Bolton Castle are hosting an educational festival about the bird believed to be Britain’s greatest conservation concern, the Eurasian curlew.

THE Cornish Grey Partridge Project (CGPP), which aims to help the recovery of the diminishing gamebird, is returning to this year’s Royal Cornwall Show.

FARMERS, land managers and gamekeepers who took part in the Partridge Count Scheme (PCS) this spring are being urged to return their counts to the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT).

GWCT is among many organisations highlighting the need for the conservation of migratory birds and their habitats through World Migratory Bird Day tomorrow (May 12^th).

ENVIRONMENTAL measures farmers are putting in place for birds and bees could be aiding a popular farmland creature, a new study has revealed.

A GRANT has been awarded - ahead of World Curlew Day on Saturday April 21st - by the Heritage Lottery Fund to aid the recovery of an iconic bird, the curlew. 

AHEAD of World Curlew Day, GWCT staff have been paying visits to farms in fear of losing their nesting curlews due to the bird’s continuing demise.

WADERS for Real, a project seeking to aid declining wader birds in the Avon Valley, has received a one-year extension.