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'Essential Soil and Water Conference' at the Allerton Project

Speakers highlight impact of soils and water at GWCT conference

New ponds are crucial in the battle to save freshwater wildlife

Joining forces to restore the River Welland

Hear about making habitat improvements work on an arable farming enterprise, at the GWCT East Anglian Grey Partridge Walk 2022

Biodiversity recovery, clean water in the River Avon, and net zero farming by 2040 – new Environmental Farmers Group sets out its bold ambitions

Redshank in the Avon Valley: A 2025 success story

The breeding population of redshank – a threatened native wading bird species – is continuing to thrive in the Avon Valley in Hampshire thanks to the dedicated conservation work of the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust and local wildlife managers. In the past ten years, numbers have increase...

Annual salmon count shows record low numbers of fish for a second consecutive year

The annual counting and tagging of juvenile wild Atlantic salmon on the River Frome in Dorset has shown a dramatic decline in numbers of fish being captured for a second year in succession, indicating a worrying downward trend which is reflected across the UK and Europe. Since 2002, the Game &amp...

Eels tagged in bid to understand their river movements and migration

The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust’s (GWCT) fisheries team have begun a new project to catch and tag eels in the River Frome in Dorset in a first ever bid to better understand the movements of this fish species in our river and waterways and monitor the start of their migration from the U...

New research shows rise in predators is threatening red-listed birds with extinction

A survey of ground nesting birds on around 3,000 hectares of moorland in north Northumberland has shown dramatic declines of iconic threatened species 10 years after predation management ceased as part of a controlled experiment spanning two decades. A recently published scientific paper based on...