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Background
The causes of recent declines in breeding merlin are poorly understood. One hypothesis is that recent changes in the intensity of heather burning and cutting on grouse moors may be increasing heather dominated habitat and thus reducing the availability of key avian prey, particularly m...
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GWCT research in the uplands and lowlands shows that the control of predatory species such as crows is important for the conservation of gamebirds, wading birds and songbirds.
General Licences authorise the control of certain bird pest species including crows, gulls and pigeons. Reasons specified...
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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...
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Our inaugural GAME Scotland conference, held at Perth Racecourse on 29 March, attracted 87 keen attendees. Scottish chairman David Noble welcomed our guests and senior advisor Hugo Straker introduced and chaired the day’s presentations:
Dr Adam Smith’s opening talk highlighted the importance of...
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We agree that Government needs to take a fresh approach to tackling this disease. In the 1970s and 1980s the then Ministry of Agriculture seemed to be on course to eliminate TB entirely from British cattle. But since then things have been allowed to get worse - mainly because of uncertainty about...
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The effects of grouse moor management on raptors and ravens
Merlin Magic
Hen Harrier
Hen harriers and grouse
The status of hen harriers in Scotland
Hen Harrier Joint Recovery Plan
Hen harrier fact sheet
Langholm Moor Demonstration Project
Hen harriers and the Joint Raptor Study
Diversion...
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Why do we need these principles?
The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust promotes best practice game management as a force for good for nature conservation and environmental improvement on farmland, woodland, moorland and wetland. By establishing principles, we want to promote best practice an...
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GWCT Premium Members are covered by an insurance policy arranged by Lycetts Insurance Brokers and automatically receive the following insurance package as soon as they join (full policy and schedule can be read here and here):
£10 million Public Liability Cover
£10 million Product Liability Cove...
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Gifts in Wills help the GWCT to make a meaningful difference in the countryside. Your legacy can be thriving wildlife and an active, well-managed countryside for generations to come.
Our team of 80 scientists undertake research throughout England, Scotland and Wales, covering subjects ranging fro...
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Pioneering research breakthrough
For many reasons the country’s national conservation strategy is not working well enough.
Without a focus on solutions that achieve greater breeding success, local declines may become local extinctions.
There is evidence that this is happening right now, and it ma...
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