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The 2024 edition of the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust’s Big Farmland Bird Count has officially begun, and it is now time to take part.

“Sitting with some of the farmers' children and pointing out birds to them is so rewarding. Building friendships with the farmers and their families is great and having an open door - or field - to return any time to birdwatch is priceless,” says bird expert and volunteer counter Andrew Goodall.

This year the annual GWCT Game Conference, Game 2024, is taking place in the north of the country for the first time. The conference is jam-packed with informative, topical talks from an excellent range of guest speakers and GWCT experts, and ticket sales support the vital research and essential work of the GWCT.

A new project led by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust is set to boost numbers of threatened wading birds whilst also encouraging terns to return to a historically important breeding site along the Solent coastline.

Hope Valley Farmers in Derbyshire and Bradfield Farmers Group in Yorkshire have teamed up to plant 31,000 hedge plants and 1,500 trees on their farms this winter.

The latest survey of the UK’s resident woodcock population saw the highest ever participation rate since the count began 20 years ago.

A Christmas tale from the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust...

Are you a farmer, ranger, game or forest keeper who cares about wildlife conservation? Do you want to help monitor and protect the bird species on your land? If so, join the Big Farmland Bird Count (BFBC) in 2024.

The IUCN have identified a number of key pressures faced by Atlantic salmon including climate change, poor water quality, dams and barriers, salmon farming, exploitation at sea, and invasive non-native species.

The Environmental Farmers Group (EFG), Peakland Environmental Farmers (PEF) and Swaledale & Wensleydale Environmental Farmers (SWEF) now represent 469 land managers with three shared objectives of carbon neutrality, biodiversity recovery and cleaner rivers.