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  • EU Habitat Action Plan 4030: Maintaining and restoring European dry heaths

    This EU Habitat Action Plan was published by the European Commission in 2020. It provides guidance to maintain and restore European dry heaths to a favourable conservation status. Dry heaths are wide open landscapes, typically occurring on free-draining soil that has a relatively low nutrient con...

  • History of the Trust

    A severe outbreak of the disease Strongylosis in grey partridges in 1931 led Major HG Eley (a cartridge manufacturer employed by ICI) to establish the ICI Game Research Station at Knebworth in Hertfordshire. He gave a research grant to Doug Middleton at the Bureau of Animal Population at Oxford, ...

  • How your money is spent

    All the money raised from the Scottish Auction funds our vital research, education and policy work in Scotland. A breakdown of how your money is used is shown below:

  • Meet the team

    Janine Stikeleather Administrator Olivia Miller Placement Student Ruby Harmer Placement Student Dyfan Jenkins Shepherd Scott Newey Head of Uplands Research

  • Our charitable objects

    The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust charitable objects are: To promote for the public benefit,  the conservation of game and its associated flora and fauna. To conduct research into game and wildlife management (including the use of game animals as a natural resource) and the effects of f...

  • Affiliated organisations

    The Trust carries out research with a wide range of organisations. We would like to thank these organisations for their assistance with this research and their co-operation with wildlife conservation. Below is a list of these organisations with links to their sites. Atlantic Salmon Trust The Bri...

  • GWCT Complaints Policy and Procedure

    We want to find out about things that have gone wrong so we can fix them, and prevent things going wrong in the future [1]. To help get this right we expect the person making the complaint to: Provide sufficient information for us to be able to understand the complaint, its cause, and a potentia...

  • GWCT Uplands Newsletter

    The GWCT Uplands Team publish a regular newsletter which provides an update on their fascinating research. You can download the most recent edition here and sign up to receive it by email:

  • Niamh McHugh

    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...

  • Student opportunities

    The Research and Advisory Departments of the GWCT have a long-running association with teaching in UK universities. Although we are not a higher education institute (HEI) and therefore cannot award a degree to students, we can and do supervise students at three levels in the University system. Un...

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