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The Upland Game Conference, formerly known as the North of England Grouse Seminar, has revamped for 2025 to offer something for landowners, land managers, gamekeepers, and conservationists alike. We have expanded our range of talks to include updates on research and policy, and practical advice ...
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The GWCT’s Part-Time Gamekeepers Course has been running in one form or another for over 40 years, and has adapted in that time to ensure that the most current thinking regarding best practice game and shoot management is always at the forefront; helping keepers across the country improve their p...
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Natural England have published a bulletin outlining some small changes to the General Licences for wild bird control, GL 40 - 42 as they take responsibility for the licences from Defra for 2026.
GWCT’s head of education Matt Goodall said that Natural England has engaged with GWCT and wider stakeh...
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By Felix Meister, D.Phil., Senior Advisor Scotland
On Thursday 29 January, Scottish Parliament agreed to pass the Natural Environment (Scotland) Bill, following two days of debate about the final amendments to the Bill. Among the amendments, no 43, introduced by Beatrice Wishart, MSP for Shetland...
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GWCT Upland Game Conference 2025
This year’s Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) Upland Game Conference will take place in the heart of Teesdale, at The Witham in Barnard Castle, on Monday 17th February.
Previously known as the North of England Grouse Seminar, the event has been renamed...
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Scientific research, practitioner evidence and environmental accreditation are essential for sustainable game management -- the take home message from GWCT’s lowland gamebird conference.
GWCT chairman Sir Jim Paice introduced the conference by saying that while there are currently no indications ...
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The GWCT policy team has briefed MPs ahead of the parliamentary debate triggered by the Wild Justice petition to ban driven grouse shooting. The petition gained more than 100,000 signatures required to prompt a debate, which will take place on Monday 30 June. The wording on the petition, which wi...
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The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust is urging all shoots across the country to take part in the National Gamebag Census – the only national survey recording the number of gamebirds shot each season.
GWCT principal scientist Dr Julie Ewald, whose team conducts the data analysis of the surve...
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Defra’s New Hedgerow Regulations – what’s changing?
The Management of Hedgerows (England) Regulations came into effect in May 2024, aimed at protecting hedgerows on agricultural land. Hedgerows are vital: they provide habitat for wildlife, serve as corridors for animal movement, slow soil erosio...
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Following the outstanding success of our autumn training courses, with over 400 certificates issued, we’re thrilled to announce new training dates for February 2025.
The GWCT, is a trusted authority in wildlife management training, and is the leading provider of the Scottish government-approved A...
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