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  • The Last Keeper: award-winning film now available to watch at home

    The Last Keeper has been making waves across the globe, earning acclaim for its powerful narrative and stunning cinematography. Tackling the complex and often contentious issues surrounding land management in Scotland, the documentary has achieved remarkable success not just in sparking meaningf...

  • Grouse Monitoring Services

    Crashes in grouse populations in recent years have highlighted the need to better understand grouse population dynamics and the factors that currently influence these dramatic declines. The GWCT has carried out red grouse population and disease monitoring since the 1980s, which has led to a wealt...

  • Introducing Sam Rawlinson - Graduate Intern with the GWCT English Uplands team

    I’m Sam Rawlinson, one of the newly started graduate interns with the Uplands Research team, working in the North Pennines. I studied biology (with a focus on evolutionary biology) at university and spent the last two years involved in outdoor education, largely teaching ecology fieldwork skills...

  • Important Updates on Trap Registration and Training

    Since the 1st April 2020 practitioners have been required by law to register with NatureScot in order to use Larsen Traps, Larsen Mate Traps, Larsen Pod Traps and multi-catch crow traps under the General Licences. Registrations were to last 5 years before reregistering was required. However, on t...

  • GWCT Game 25 Conference: Book your place

    The GWCT’s annual Game Conference is promising to deliver an excellent line-up of speakers and a day packed with insightful and informative talks. This year’s event will take place on Tuesday 18 March at the Trust’s headquarters at Fordingbridge in the New Forest. Lunch will be provided and there...

  • Scotland: Wildlife Trap Licence important update

    By Felix Meister, D.Phil., Advisor Scotland The Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Act 2024 introduced the Wildlife Trap Licence as a new legal requirement for operating spring traps and corvid traps in Scotland. The Act makes it a prerequisite for obtaining a licence that trap operators...

  • Abercairney gives kids a taste of rural life

    By Iona Laing, Education & Events Officer Over 200 pupils visited Abercairney in the sun last week, primary pupils on the first day and secondary on the second. The day was run by the Moorland Groups under their new Educational Programme, Learn on the Land. Pupils in groups worked their way ...

  • Muirburn Licences: Important Update

    By Felix Meister, D.Phil., Advisor Scotland The Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Act 2024 introduced Muirburn Licences as a new legal requirement for making muirburn in Scotland. The new licensing scheme was expected to come into effect ahead of the 2025/26 burning season starting on ...

  • Will we see you at The Game Fair?

    Are you planning on visiting Ragley Hall for The Game Fair on 25-27 July? We would love to see you there and have lots going on at our stand. You can find us at stand number E1121. Get the latest updates on our work Throughout the weekend a number of our scientists will be available to discuss th...

  • Our rivers are treated as sewers: GWCT letter to The Guardian

    Dear Editor, Regarding your article on the decline of the wild Atlantic Salmon on the 15 October. As someone who has worked to research and conserve wild Atlantic salmon for over 30 years, I am enraged, that both national and international governments have allowed our rivers to deteriorate into s...

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