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  • GWCT Raffle & Draw Winners

    Dumbleton Raffle drawn on 4th June 2021: Winning ticket 147 Gloucestershire 4 of the Best Raffle drawn on 9th June 2021: Winning ticket 148 Chilterns 4 of the Best Raffle drawn on 9th July 2021: Winning ticket 194 Norfolk McNab Raffle drawn on 2nd August 2021: Winning ticket 58 Perthshire Big Fou...

  • FRAMEwork

    There is an urgent need to increase the efficiency and sustainability of agriculture to feed our growing global human population. Biodiversity is essential for the resilience of ecosystems on agricultural land, sustainability and long-term food security. FRAMEwork aims to conserve biodiversity by...

  • The Sussex Study: 50 years of monitoring an agricultural ecosystem

    This article, written by Gillian Gooderham, appeared on the National Geographic website in April 2018 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Sussex Study From inauspicious beginnings in a Sussex barn to policy-changing science, the Sussex Study aims to reverse the decline of wildlife on Britain's fa...

  • Pine martens and capercaillie

    In light of recent coverage in The Guardian and The Herald, we would like to take this opportunity to revisit a blog post we wrote in December 2014: If you walk through a Scottish pine forest and are lucky enough to hear and then see a ‘Horse of the Woods’ you will be amazed. That’s because the s...

  • Grey partridge

    (Perdix perdix) Habitat Grey Partridge prefer areas of open farmland. They tend to be absent from areas dominated by improved grasslands (fertilized), preferring a mixed farming or arable landscape. They will use field margins, arable crops and grass leys for cover and feeding habitat. Food Thei...

  • Lapwing

    Vanellus vanellus Habitat Lapwing will live on all types of farmland but prefer mixed farming systems and extensively managed wet grasslands. They prefer wide open landscapes during the breeding season to avoid predators.  Food Lapwing are surface-feeding birds that benefit from varied cropping....

  • Song thrush

    Turdus philomelos Habitat The song thrush is found in areas of woodland, trees, bushes and scrub, adjacent to grassland. They prefer areas where there is leaf litter and moist ground with large numbers of invertebrates. In arable areas, song thrushes prefer game crops and oilseed rape, as where ...

  • GWCT Scottish Game Fair blessed with three days of wall to wall sunshine

    Our 30th anniversary Scottish Game Fair in association this year with NFU Mutual, leading rural insurer, was a great success with just under 30,000 attendees and glorious weather for all the three days. There has been great feedback from visitors, our programme of ‘have a go’ country sports activ...

  • General Donation

    Help us create a thriving countryside rich in game and other wildlife Donate Now > What do we do? We use science to promote game and wildlife management as an essential part of nature conservation. We develop scientifically researched game and wildlife management techniques. We promote our w...

  • 2013 Gun Draw

    The draw is now closed. Congratulations to this year's winner, Mr George Ponsonby We will be announcing details of our 2014 Gun Draw soon Win a beautiful pair of made-to-measure E.J. Churchill Regal side-by-side guns worth £14,750 and help us raise money to prove the conservation value of shootin...

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