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Scottish newspaper The National and Scottish Government Minister jump to premature conclusions over expansion of mountain hare monitoring resource: Here's our response

Night-time counts shine a light of hope on Peak District mountain hares

Mountain hare ‘decline’ not black and white - our letter to BBC Wildlife

Coordinated approach to mountain hare counts is required: our letter to The Telegraph

Legal protection will not increase hare numbers if the right habitat is absent. A Letter to The Times from Sir Jim Paice

A letter sent to The Times by Sir Jim Paice.  Three days ago I watched four hares in my 7 acre paddock in front of my house being ‘mad march hares’. Baroness Helic is correct (Thunderer 25th March) that they are one of the most evocative symbols of the English Countryside. However, the mere fact...

How our Loddington Shoot demonstrates best practice

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 bequest from Lord and Lady Allerton and it consists of a mixed fa...

Shooting, conservation and the Purdey Awards

By Mike Swan, Senior Advisor One of the proudest moments of my career with the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust’s Advisory service was when my friends and clients Ian and Claire Smith of Nether Hale in Kent won the Purdey Awards for Game and Conservation in 2003. Four years earlier, with ju...

GWCT Upland Game Conference 2025 calls for ‘boots on the ground’ to increase data collection to demonstrate the benefits of grouse moor management

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...