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Head of Farmland Ecology Unit
Niamh is Head of Farmland Ecology Research at the GWCT. Much of her research focuses on landscape-scale farmer collaboration and the potential benefits this may have on farming systems (e.g. regenerative agriculture), farmland birds (e.g. barn owls), and wider ecosys...
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The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust's patron is HM The King and its president is the Marquess of Salisbury. The Board of Trustees has overall responsibility for the Trust and provides us with a breadth of experience and expertise in the countryside and wildlife conservation.
Chairman
The ...
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The protection of wild game by gamekeepers has by tradition involved the control of those predators that kill gamebirds or rob their nests. While some ecologists up to the late 1970s believed predation losses to be of little or no consequence to prey populations our experimental studies have demo...
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Our head office is in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, but many posts are based at regional offices and project sites across the UK. To view the details of each vacancy click on the job title.
There are currently no vacancies
To discuss these or other vacancies contact email our human resources depart...
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“Our countryside’s future rests in the hands of those who care for it everyday — without support for our farmers, nature recovery hangs in the balance.”- Dr. Alastair Leake, Director of Policy, GWCT
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You don’t hear much about the good work done by farmers and land managers. How many people in our towns and cities know about the conservation work being done on farms every single...
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Our people
Passionate and resourceful. Loyal and positive.
Our shared passion to produce a thriving countryside rich in wildlife and game runs throughout the Trust. We’re proud that everyone at the Trust upholds these principles. Our organisation would not have been able to stay at the cutting ed...
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Below are examples of some of the long running projects we're involved in:
Big Farmland Bird Count >
PARTRIDGE Project >
SAMARCH Project >
Waders for Real >
We also run three long-term monitoring programmes, the Partridge Count Scheme, National Gamebag Census and Sussex Sttudy, wh...
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Key points
This study, part of the EU‑funded FRAMEwork project, investigated whether a small set of familiar farmland birds could reliably indicate wider bird diversity.
Using Breeding Bird Survey–style data from 2021–2024 in Farmer Clusters in Cranborne Chase (England) and Buchan (Scotland), re...
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Our 2024-2028 Strategy for a resilient working countryside
The conservation world is collectively trying to tackle the twin crises of biodiversity loss and climate change. The GWCT has an important role to play because of the way in which we work with farmers, river keepers, gamekeepers, moorland...
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