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Make your voice heard on a burning issue

The GWCT would urge all supporters with an interest in managed heather burning to contribute to the consultation on Defra’s proposed amendments to The Heather and Grass etc. Burning (England) Regulations 2021. Proposed amendments to the regulations include: Expanding restrictions to all LFAs. Re...

The role of firebreaks to prevent, mitigate and control wildfire on deep peat and dry heath is acknowledged by Natural England

Written by Henrietta Appleton, Policy Officer (England) Over the past 2-3 years, we have spent much time highlighting to ministers, their advisers and conservation bodies the increasing risk of wildfire to our natural environment. Our concerns are that the current direction of land management pol...

Wildfire – a recipe for disaster?

Written by Henrietta Appleton, GWCT Policy Officer For any fire to start and spread it needs fuel, oxygen and an ignition source.  But when it comes to wildfires at a landscape scale there are additional factors such as the fire environment (weather, topography and fuel) and the fire regime (land...

GWCT Upland Game Conference 2025 calls for ‘boots on the ground’ to increase data collection to demonstrate the benefits of grouse moor management

Gamekeepers, estate managers, land agents and shooting organisations from across the North of England and Scotland gathered for this year’s Upland Game Conference in Barnard Castle, Co. Durham, to hear from a wide range of speakers including scientists specialising in upland research, policy exp...

Incentivising farmers to help nature through the Environmental Land Management Scheme. Our letter to The Guardian

The suggestion that the solution to the “Nature Crisis” is through further SSSI designation is a flawed concept. Many of the existing SSSI sites are already not meeting their conservation objectives – simply adding more will not help. A better approach is through incentivizing farmers to help nat...

Wildfire: We must not get caught NAP-ing!

By Henrietta Appleton, Policy Officer England “Action [to prepare for wildfire] cannot be delayed further. To do so will lock in more damaging impacts and threaten the delivery of other key Government objectives, such as Net Zero.”Climate Change Committee Progress in adapting to climate change...

Right tree, right place: What we can learn from some of our favourite species

Written by Jayna Connelly, Science Communicator Tree planting is often seen as a universal fix for climate change, biodiversity loss and even economies via carbon credits. But ask any conservation scientist at the GWCT and they’ll tell you that it is just not that simple. When done well, woodland...

Wolves, Reintroductions and Wildlife Management

Practitioner survey on management for curlew

Digital Shoot Management