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The Upland Game Conference, formerly known as the North of England Grouse Seminar, has revamped for 2025 to offer something for landowners, land managers, gamekeepers, and conservationists alike. We have expanded our range of talks to include updates on research and policy, and practical advice ...
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By Sue Evans, GWCT Cymru Policy Director
As I start my new role as Policy Director Wales, it’s hard to think of good news stories within the Welsh farming sector right now – two cases of avian influenza have been confirmed, bluetongue threatens, and the inheritance tax on farms is at the forefron...
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The decline in breeding pairs of red grouse in Scotland was highlighted on both TV and radio by the BBC this week.
The GWCT’s 2025 spring count, which is part of our nationwide monitoring programme at 35 sites in the Angus, Borders, Dee/Donside, Highlands, Moray & Nairn, and Perthshire, showe...
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By Dr Rufus Sage, Head of Lowland Game Research
The GWCT Research department recognises the potential for local populations of certain UK reptile species to be affected by released pheasants and partridges. While there is currently little solid evidence of an effect, it is very plausible that phe...
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I’m Sam Rawlinson, one of the newly started graduate interns with the Uplands Research team, working in the North Pennines.
I studied biology (with a focus on evolutionary biology) at university and spent the last two years involved in outdoor education, largely teaching ecology fieldwork skills...
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By Alex Keeble, Central England Game & Wildlife Advisor
The Allerton Project, established in 1992, is a research and demonstration farm managed by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust at Loddington, Leicestershire and covers approximately 320 hectares. The farm at Loddington was a beque...
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Starting in 1970, the GWCT’s ongoing Sussex Study is the world’s longest running scientific study on invertebrates in the cereal ecosystem, providing a robust indication of the national picture. In the video Julie Ewald explains the implications of the 37% decline since 1970 revealed in her recen...
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GWCT member Annette West was delighted to receive a 20-year-old jeroboam of Taylor’s Port at her home in North Devon after picking the winning raffle ticket on the GWCT stand at this year’s Game Fair at Ragley. Annette is planning to take the port, generously donated by Taylor’s, to Crufts in Mar...
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Written by Henrietta Appleton, Policy Officer (England)
Over the past 2-3 years, we have spent much time highlighting to ministers, their advisers and conservation bodies the increasing risk of wildfire to our natural environment. Our concerns are that the current direction of land management pol...
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Gamekeepers, estate managers, land agents and shooting organisations from across the North of England and Scotland gathered for this year’s Upland Game Conference in Barnard Castle, Co. Durham, to hear from a wide range of speakers including scientists specialising in upland research, policy exp...
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