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Brown hare conservation is about getting the basics right

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...

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...

Right tree, right place: What we can learn from some of our favourite species

Written by Jayna Connelly, Science Communicator Tree planting is often seen as a universal fix for climate change, biodiversity loss and even economies via carbon credits. But ask any conservation scientist at the GWCT and they’ll tell you that it is just not that simple. When done well, woodland...

How our Loddington Shoot demonstrates best practice

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...

PepsiCo FAB farm delivering for nature

Written by Fiona Torrance, Farmland Biodiversity Advisory GWCT Scotland and PepsiCo FAB Project Manager One aim of the PepsiCo FAB project is to enhance communication between project participants. Over the course of the project, this has been done in a number of ways including regular updates, bu...

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...