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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.

Join us for the SAMARCH Project's final conference, taking place in Southampton on 14th & 15th March 2023

A group of hill farmers  has created a pioneering  environmental cooperative to protect against the effects of climate change and boost wildlife, alongside sustainable livestock production.

Welsh farms have significantly increased populations of farmland birds since growing seed-bearing cover crops and providing feeding stations containing supplementary seed.

A full-day symposium examining the conservation of Scotland’s four grouse species – red grouse, black grouse, capercaillie and ptarmigan – is taking place on 5 May 2023 at Balhousie Castle, Perth.

In the next fortnight, thousands of farmers and land managers across the UK will be taking half an hour out to observe and record the wild birds that share their land, as the tenth GWCT Big Farmland Bird Count gets under way.

2023 is the GWCT Big Farmland Bird Count’s tenth birthday. Ahead of this year’s count, its founder Jim Egan, is encouraging land managers to take part. 

Science-based conservation techniques for ground-nesting birds, hen harrier conflict resolution and the latest research into peatland management will be amongst the topics discussed at the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust’s Northern England Grouse Seminar on 28 February 2023 in Harrogate.