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The annual Charity Clay Shoot at Warter Priory Estate in East Yorkshire has raised an incredible £135,000 for the UK's leading wildlife research charity the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT). The money will go towards the vital scientific research carried out by the GWCT to enhance the British countryside for public benefit.

As pupils return to school for the beginning of a new school year, the GWCT has once again launched its Schools Art Competition, which is open to all pupils across Perth and Kinross, Angus, and Aberdeenshire.

The 4th Wykeham Charity Clay Shoot held on 26 May this year raised over £50,000 with the proceeds being split between Ryedale Special Families, the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust and Scarborough & Ryedale Mountain Rescue.

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.

Mountain hare densities in the Peak District could be five times higher than previous estimates, according to new findings.

The UK’s farmers, gamekeepers and land managers are being urged to get involved in the GWCT Big Farmland Bird Count from 4-20 February 2022, and make a crucial difference to wildlife.

The latest assessment of the status of all the UK’s 245 regularly occurring bird species – Birds of Conservation Concern 5 – shows that 70 species are now of ‘highest conservation concern’ and have been placed on the assessment’s Red List. The newly revised Red List now includes familiar species, such as the swift, house martin and greenfinch that have been added for the first time.

A preview evening and two-day exhibition of paintings, drawings, prints and bronze sculpture by two renowned wildlife artists is to be held in Northumberland to raise money for the UK's leading wildlife research charity, the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT), as well as Brain Tumour Research and The High Sheriff Awards.