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GWCT Upland Game Conference 2025
This year’s Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) Upland Game Conference will take place in the heart of Teesdale, at The Witham in Barnard Castle, on Monday 17th February.
Previously known as the North of England Grouse Seminar, the event has been renamed...
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Written by Henrietta Appleton, GWCT Policy Officer
There are currently calls for the introduction of a closed season for brown hares through both a private bill by Baroness Helic and a parliamentary petition, which has received a government response. This indicates that the government supports su...
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We're running two essential conferences for game managers in the first part of next year.
The GWCT Uplands Game & Wildlife Conference will take place on Monday 17th February at The Witham at Barnard Castle and will cover many of the key issues facing our uplands. Online booking is available ...
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By Alex Keeble, Central England Game & Wildlife Advisor
The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust conducts scientific research into Britain’s game and wildlife management and the effects of farming and other land management practices on the environment.
The Advisory team play an important ro...
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By Dr Nick Hesford, Head of Advisory, GWCT Scotland
A ban on snaring, introduced as part of the Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Act 2024, will commence on Monday 25 November 2024. This means that, from this date, it will be an offence to set a snare in Scotland for the purpose of kill...
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Marcus Jansen, Executive Director of Schöffel Country, presented a cheque for £24,226 to Alastair Leake, director of the GWCT’s Allerton Project, at the Trust’s flagship demonstration farm in Loddington, Leicestershire. The donation was for the total raised by the autumn giveback campaign whereby...
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Scientific research, practitioner evidence and environmental accreditation are essential for sustainable game management -- the take home message from GWCT’s lowland gamebird conference.
GWCT chairman Sir Jim Paice introduced the conference by saying that while there are currently no indications ...
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By Henrietta Appleton, GWCT Policy Officer (England)
Thursday 5th December is the FAO’s World Soils Day with a theme of caring for our soils through “measure, monitor, manage.”
The Importance of Good Data for Soil Management
The importance of good data to support informed decision-making is a ke...
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By Felix Meister, D.Phil., Advisor Scotland
In March and early April, GWCT staff commenced the 2025 red grouse monitoring season by carrying out pair counts across Scotland. Pair counts aim to determine the number of pairs going into the breeding season. The current monitoring regime extends over...
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Many readers will be aware of the recent scrutiny facing grouse shooting. At the start of the year Wild Justice once again launched a petition calling for the ban of driven grouse shooting, and in May this petition gained the 100,000 signatures necessary for the topic to be debated by Parliament....
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