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AFTER a ten-year absence, the Game and & Wildlife Conservation Trust’s (GWCT) Scottish Mountain Hare Survey is making a return.

David Noble, who was Director of the GWCT Scottish Game Fair from 2011 to 2016, is the new Scottish Chairman of the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT).

THE time has arrived to dust down your binoculars and start birdwatching, as the Big Farmland Bird Count (BFBC) is back for the fifth consecutive year.

NEW research undertaken by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) shows that predation control of corvids can improve the breeding success of farmland hedgerow-nesting songbirds.

A MULTI-MILLION pound project that will provide crucial evidence to strengthen the protection of salmon and sea trout at sea has officially launched.

DEFRA has (18 January 2018) introduced an Avian Influenza Prevention Zone to cover the whole of England.

MAXIMISE the benefit of the scheme to your farm business, the wildlife on your farm and your shoot by finding out about the new Countryside Stewardship Offers at a course being held by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust.

FINDINGS from the latest research carried out by scientists in the uplands will be discussed at the upcoming North of England Grouse Seminar.

THE importance of soils and water will be highlighted to farmers, researchers and policymakers at what promises to be a thought-provoking conference next month.

ONE of the world’s longest-running wildlife monitoring schemes needs your help in 2018.