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Royston Grey Partridge Recovery Project

Managing for ticks in the presence of deer and hares

Our charitable objects

The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust charitable objects are: To promote for the public benefit,  the conservation of game and its associated flora and fauna. To conduct research into game and wildlife management (including the use of game animals as a natural resource) and the effects of f...

EU Habitat Action Plan 4030: Maintaining and restoring European dry heaths

This EU Habitat Action Plan was published by the European Commission in 2020. It provides guidance to maintain and restore European dry heaths to a favourable conservation status. Dry heaths are wide open landscapes, typically occurring on free-draining soil that has a relatively low nutrient con...

Data back to Darwin

Unleash the Science Fund

By Sir Jim Paice, GWCT Chairman You will have seen the headlines about our climate, about the need to store more carbon, about species in decline. You and I live in a world that is always looking for simple answers. For over 80 years, GWCT research has helped to inform the way this land is manag...

Species

Birds Grey partridge > Common pheasant > Red grouse > Black Grouse > Birds of prey > Lapwing and other waders > Woodcock > Songbirds > Fish Salmon > Trout > Grayling > Pike > Mammals Brown hare > Mountain hare > Water vole > Deer > American mink &g...

QuESSA

Nature can provide a multitude of hidden benefits to humans such as control of crop pests by their natural enemies, crop pollination and prevention of soil erosion that keeps rivers clean. These are known as ecosystem services and are worth billions of euros every year in each European country. T...

Holly Appleby

Species Recovery Assistant, GWCT Uplands Holly grew up in the Durham Dales and joined the GWCT in 2023 as a Research Assistant working on camera traps and ground-nesting waders, and long-term red and black grouse population monitoring. Prior to joining the GWCT she completed a BSc and MRes at Dur...

History of the Trust

A severe outbreak of the disease Strongylosis in grey partridges in 1931 led Major HG Eley (a cartridge manufacturer employed by ICI) to establish the ICI Game Research Station at Knebworth in Hertfordshire. He gave a research grant to Doug Middleton at the Bureau of Animal Population at Oxford, ...