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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...

General Licences for 2020

Following last year’s General Licence fiasco, Defra are now reviewing when people will and won’t be allowed to control pest species in England in 2020. We are taking action now We're asking if you will help fund our challenging programme of work to ensure that those in charge listen not only to t...

Royston Grey Partridge Recovery Project

Sussex Study

Our study on the Sussex Downs is the longest-running monitoring project in the world that measures the impact of changes in farming on the fauna and flora of arable land. It started in 1968 with an investigation into the causes of the decline in numbers of the grey partridge. The Sussex Study cel...

GWCT Scotland Update

Dear Scottish member I have now been in post for five months as the Director for The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust for Scotland, having taken over from Dr Adam Smith, who has moved to be Director (Policy). There is a lot going on, much of which you will be aware, and the aim of this lett...

Research

Increasing food and bees > The importance of different crops for supporting bird life > Weeds in arable fields could help declining insect populations > How is the activity of different bat species affected by agri-environment schemes? > Managing pesticide contamination in surface wa...

Farmland food webs

Farmland is home to hundreds of plant and thousands of animal species, many of which are highly dependent on each other forming a complex food web. This was first revealed by our early work on the grey partridge in Sussex. The population of grey partridge was partially dependent on the survival r...

Help the GWCT come back stronger

With your help we can come out of the pandemic even stronger By Teresa Dent CBE, GWCT Chief Executive 3 minute read A year on from the start of the pandemic, your support has given us hope and enabled us to keep going – thank you. When the pandemic hit last March, we forecast a drop in income of...

Comprehensive review of camera trap data provides the clearest picture yet of which animals are responsible for nest predation in Britain

Key points: This study brings together the most comprehensive dataset of nest-camera studies across Britain, analysing over 2,000 nests from 24 bird species. Mammals, particularly foxes and badgers, were identified as the main nest predators, especially for ground-nesting waders such as curlew a...

Red grouse

How did the removal of grouse moor management in Berwyn SPA affect other birds? Dispersal and mortality of red grouse in northern England  Red grouse and climate change  Strongyle infection rates  Treatment of strongylosis  Parasites and red grouse  Controlling louping ill  Grouse moor survey  A...