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Latest News

  • Kent clay shoot raises £60,000 for charity

    Kent clay shoot raises £60,000 for charity

    A clay shoot in Sevenoaks, Kent has raised £60,000 to be shared between two charities: Demelza Hospice Care for Children, and leading wildlife research charity the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT).

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  • Shakespeare’s ‘Comedy’ smiles on wildlife research in Suffolk

    Shakespeare’s ‘Comedy’ smiles on wildlife research in Suffolk

    Nearly 400 years after his death, William Shakespeare is coming to the aid of the UK's leading wildlife research charity, the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT). The charity is to benefit from an open-air production of 'The Comedy of Errors' by the Castle Theatre Company at Glemham Hall, Woodbridge, Suffolk on Sunday 5 July, with the proceeds going towards funding groundbreaking conservation science research.

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  • UK partridges provide the blueprint to save EU wildlife

    UK partridges provide the blueprint to save EU wildlife

    According to a comprehensive new report on Europe’s wildlife and natural habitats, one in three European birds are now endangered, with once common species such as turtle doves, corn bunting and grey partridge plunging to an all-time low.

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  • Tickets please for sporting prize of a lifetime

    Tickets please for sporting prize of a lifetime

    Past winners of the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust’s annual Grand Grouse Draw have waxed lyrical of their amazing prize – not quite believing they have won the opportunity to experience one of the UK’s top sporting challenges. The GWCT is now giving you the chance to win a thrilling day’s driven grouse shooting for eight guns at Horseupcleugh grouse moor in the Lammermuir Hills during the 2016 season.

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  • Light at the end of a very grey tale!

    Light at the end of a very grey tale!

    Researchers at the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT), who are studying wild grey partridges – one of our fastest declining farmland birds – are hoping for a warm summer this year to repeat the breeding success of 2014, which saw an encouraging 18 per cent increase in grey partridges.

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  • Borders date for essential training course

    Borders date for essential training course

    Wildlife managers are being urged to attend a training course at Yetholm, near Kelso on Thursday 23 April to bring them up to date on tunnel trapping.

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  • Managing Shoots for the Future in North Yorkshire

    Managing Shoots for the Future in North Yorkshire

    The Game & Wildife Conservation Trust (GWCT) is to hold a special shoot management day at Ripley Castle, North Yorkshire on Saturday 9 May.

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  • Making a stand for pheasants at the CLA Game Fair at Harewood

    Making a stand for pheasants at the CLA Game Fair at Harewood

    Rearing smarter pheasants, woodcock satellite tracking and black grouse recovery will be among the fascinating research projects that will be featured on the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust’s stand at the CLA Game Fair at Harewood House, nr Leeds this year.

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  • Soldiers and wildlife to benefit from charity clay shoot

    Soldiers and wildlife to benefit from charity clay shoot

    This June, ABF The Soldiers’ Charity is teaming up with the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) to hold a two-day charity clay pigeon shoot on the Warter Estate, near Pocklington, North Yorkshire. ABF The Soldiers’ Charity is the Army’s national charity and the GWCT is the UK’s leading wildlife research charity.

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  • Magnificent setting for charity clay shoot in Hertfordshire

    Magnificent setting for charity clay shoot in Hertfordshire

    The UK's leading wildlife research charity is holding a flagship fundraising event at the Hatfield House Estate in Hertfordshire on Friday 22 May, by kind invitation of the Marquess of Salisbury.

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