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The fifth annual Julian Gardner Awards photographic competition is now open for entries. The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) is calling on all amateur nature photographers to take part.

Angela Smith MP has expressed increasing concern about how the growth of digital communications is leading to an environment where Members of Parliament sometimes feel fear.

Two counties from the north of England - Lancashire and Cumbria - will come together in the spirit of friendly competition at the Underley Team Challenge on Saturday 28 May, in order to raise funds for the UK's leading wildlife research charity, the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT).

Special guest speakers include Angela Smith MP, who was involved in the debate on whether to add fluoride to water. She continues to take interest in countryside matters, recently serving as Shadow Minister for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) are joining together with BASC to provide a two day course in shoot management and shooting techniques.

Making changes to the early lives of young pheasants can help prevent them dying needlessly, University of Exeter researchers have found.

The Heather Trust and the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust (Scotland) have announced applications are open for the 2016 Golden Plover Award for Moorland Management.

The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust is running two half-day courses at Bankfoot, near Perth, on Friday 18 March covering corvid control (including vicarious liability), and tunnel trapping.

Some spaces remain for GWCT Rat Control for Gamekeepers training courses in Angus and Dumfries.

With the cold weather approaching, now is the time to be mindful of your resident woodcock numbers and consider how you are going to help them this winter.