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Saving an icon of the Uplands
The Black Grouse Range Expansion Project is funded by Natural England’s Species Recovery Programme Capital Grant Scheme. The project aims to safeguard black grouse against potential negative impacts of climate change, through instigating measures to help increase bre...
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We are seeing black grouse disappear before our eyes. Will you help us save them?
By Dr Andrew Hoodless, GWCT Director of Research
Your support is vital to our work to bring back the black grouse. Your donations will allow our scientists to collect much n...
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Ambassadors help to raise awareness of a charity by attending events, spreading the word of the Trust and encouraging others to get involved in fundraising. Many charity ambassadors are leaders in industry, and always people who are passionate about the cause and message of the charity.
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Curlew populations are under threat, and there are concerns that increasing woodland cover could make the landscape less suitable for these iconic birds.
Researchers studied where curlews chose to nest in the New Forest for three years between 2020 and 2022.
From the 76 nests studied,...
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The 2024 Grand Grouse Draw is now closed - winning ticket number: 565
It is with great pleasure that we offer an exhilarating day of driven grouse shooting to the winner of the 2024 GWCT Grand Grouse Draw.
We have been very lucky to secure a day's driven grouse shooting in the Scottish Borders....
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It is essential to continuously improve our understanding of the distribution of released gamebirds and their potential impact on the surrounding habitat.
This study surveyed pheasant and partridge populations across ten gamebird release sites and eight non-release sites and provides ...
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Red grouse provide a relatively unique opportunity to study the gut microbiome of a wild-type bird in detail.
This study is the first to identify the gut microbiome in red grouse in detail, by extracting DNA directly from the gut contents of 15 individual birds from Scotland.
The rese...
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Join our biggest tracking project yet and help curlew, lapwing and woodcock
We need to understand what’s happening to our wading birds. With your donation, you can help us to answer the difficult questions about where our curlew, lapwing and woodcock go, and why. Building on our Woodcock Watch c...
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THE DRAW IS NOW CLOSED
THE WINNING TICKET, DRAWN ON 16/12/24, IS NUMBER 184
Win a stunning William Powell Princeps Shotgun worth £11,000 - Limited Tickets
Enter today to support our vital conservation work
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