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  • Scottish Game Fair

    We are delighted that the 33rd GWCT Scottish Game Fair, with Headline Sponsor NFU Mutual, the leading rural insurer, returns to stunning Scone Parklands over the weekend of 1-3 July 2022 As always, the fair will feature an impressive line-up of traders, competitions and main ring events plus coun...

  • How many capercaillie are left in Scotland?

    Key points Capercaillie are a red-listed species found in old pine forests in Scotland, with populations declining since the 1970s despite efforts to help them. National surveys are completed every six years, but annual lek and brood counts may be able to produce robust population estimates in t...

  • Skylark

    Skylark A well-known species in literature, poetry, art and music, the skylark hardly needs an introduction. Best known for its display flight, vertically up in the air. It is that time of year when the Walled Garden, where Research and Advisory is stationed at GWCT HQ, falls a little quiet, as b...

  • Flower Power: A brief guide to encouraging beneficial insects using wildflowers

    These days farmers face many pressures including producing more food sustainably, and using more natural ways of controlling pests now key insecticides have been banned. Planting wildflower margins can help; they can support pollinators and pest natural enemies, sequest carbon, and brighten up th...

  • New discoveries on sea trout behaviour helps inform international conservation efforts

    Key points New tracking technologies have given researchers clearer insight into sea trout smolt survival during their outward migration and adult behaviour whilst at sea. Using acoustic tags and data storage tags, scientists tracked hundreds of sea trout in three rivers and their estuaries that...

  • 2022 Results

    Primary       Olivia PatersonAberdeenshire   Louis WelshAngus   Lars RattrayPerth and Kinross   Secondary       Jessica DziwonAberdeenshire   Drew Islay DolanAngus   Shelley HowittPerth and Kinross   VIEW ALL THE WINNERS > We brought the winning artists from the...

  • Woodlark

    Woodlark I have never described myself as a ‘list-ticker-twitcher’. I don’t race out the door with my binos in hand, travelling miles and miles when told that an unexpected species has turned up in the country. I prefer to be out on my own, at work, admiring all the species around me, from the li...

  • The GWCT Fours Moors Raffle

      THIS RAFFLE IS NOW CLOSED - THE WINNING TICKET IS 11 Win an exclusive day of driven grouse shooting for 9 Guns across four North Yorkshire moors - Limited Tickets Don't miss this rare opportunity for nine guns to shoot grouse on the picturesque moors of Commondale, Kildale, Baysdale, and Wester...

  • The GWCT Oxfordshire Raffle 2024

      Win a 300-bird day at Cold Aston Shoot in the Cotswolds - Limited Tickets Don't miss this fabulous opportunity for eight guns to shoot partridge in the deep glacial valleys of Cold Aston Shoot in the Cotswolds. The prize includes exquisite hospitality: elevenses are served in various locations ...

  • Farm4Bio

    The widespread adoption of agri-environment schemes is seen as the best way to improve farmland biodiversity. Yet if this approach is to be applied efficiently and successfully we first need to know: Does active management (comparable to the HLS approach with advisory back up) compared to farm m...

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