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In spite of repeated attempts by GWCT Cymru to present clear scientific evidence to the minister, amendments to the Agriculture (Wales) Bill to allow the licensed use of Humane Cable Restraints (HCRs) to protect breeding curlew were rejected in a debate in the Welsh Parliament on 16 May.

Gylfinir Cymru is celebrating the news that their Curlew Connections Wales Project has received funding from Nature Networks Fund which is a Welsh Government grant programme delivered by The National Lottery Heritage Fund in partnership with Natural Resources Wales, to take action to prevent the extinction of curlews across Wales.

The results are in for the 2023 GWCT Big Farmland Bird Count organised by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust, and the tenth year of the event has revealed more than ever before about the conservation work undertaken by participants.

Lighter Spring evenings mean the start of the ‘roding’ season for the normally shy woodcock. And this Spring sees the start of the decennial Breeding Woodcock Survey, being run nationwide by the GWCT and British Trust for Ornithology (BTO). The Breeding Woodcock Survey was first held in 2003 and repeated in 2013.

Mandatory housing measures for poultry and captive birds, which were introduced across England and Wales to help stop the spread of bird flu, will be lifted from 00:01 on Tuesday 18 April 2023, the Chief Veterinary Officer has confirmed today following a latest assessment of the risk level.

The GWCT welcomes the UK Climate Change Committee’s 2023 report and its acknowledgement that the risk of wildfire will increase significantly in future decades.

The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) has today highlighted its serious concerns over the impact of the 200-barrel fluid leak into Poole Harbour on protected migratory fish.

Environment minister Mark Spencer MP, Shadow DEFRA Minister Daniel Zeichner MP, and Baroness Bakewell, Lib Dem Environment spokesperson, were among MPs and policy makers who met moorland managers at the Palace of Westminster recently (23 March 2023) for the launch of Real Wilders the GWCT’s new collection of case studies on the Working Conservationists preserving the UK’s precious uplands and their wildlife.

A countrywide bird survey is using its 90th birthday to call on farmers and land managers to join and commit to supporting wildlife. Since 1933, the Partridge Count Scheme run by the GWCT, has asked volunteers to count grey partridges twice a year and submit their results to a national database.

The leading game management event returns as a face-to-face conference on 28 March for the first time since 2019. Run by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT), the information-packed gathering brings together the industry’s foremost experts and the latest evidence-based game management techniques.