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THE new chairman of the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) is ready to embrace the ‘huge challenges’ ahead as we enter a Brexit era.

IN response to the publication of the Watson and Wilson (2018) paper on mountain hare populations, David Noble, Chairman (Scotland) of GWCT, has said the following.

THE publication from fisheries scientists at the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) illustrates the challenges facing Britain’s freshwater fish.

COMMUNITIES in the Strathbraan area of Perthshire approached GWCT in 2016 to help them find ways to improve the breeding and survival chances of wading birds, such as curlew and lapwing, being predated by ravens.

THE Moorland Association and the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) are celebrating the most successful hen harrier breeding season in England for over a decade.

THE Curlew Country project - part of the UK lowland recovery programme - is taking drastic action to help save a threatened species. 

THE desperate need to halt alarming wildlife declines in the Welsh countryside was the theme at today’s Royal Welsh Show at the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) Cymru briefing.

THE GWCT would like to inform its stakeholders there have been several recently reported outbreaks of Newcastle Disease (ND) in commercial poultry and smallholder flocks in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.

A NEW pheasant badge is GWCT’s latest initiative in promoting best practice in game management.

THE Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) is encouraging shoots around the country to join up to its Shoot Sweepstake Initiative in time for the 2018/2019 season.