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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

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...

Dr Nick Hesford appointed Director of the GWCT in Scotland

Dr Nick Hesford has been appointed Director of the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) in Scotland. Having started his GWCT journey spending a year as a BSc student in 2010, Nick joined GWCT’s Uplands Research team in 2017 with a PhD in Biodiversity and Community Ecology and has worked ...

GWCT at The Game Fair 2025

The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust is promising another exciting and informative display at our stand at the Game Fair at Ragley Hall on 25-27 July where we will be launching our new publication: Game For Nature – Why released gamebird management is a lifeline for declining farmland biodi...