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SAMARCH: GWCT to lead on major new research into declining salmon and sea trout populations in the Channel area

Video: Watch PhD Student Elli Rivers Discuss Her Vital Curlew Research

Elli Rivers, a PhD student working with the GWCT, has been studying curlew in the New Forest National Park. The breeding population of curlew is declining rapidly, and they are at risk of extinction within a decade. Watch the short video above to learn about Elli's fascinating work. Please help ...

The importance of healthy ecosystems in slowing climate change

By Amber Hopgood, Science Writer In the wake of COP26, climate change is something many of us are thinking about – and rightly so. Following COP21 in 2015, 195 nations adopted the Paris Climate Agreement and committed to try to keep the global average temperature no more than 2°C warmer than pre-...

Our Very First Fishing Raffle Is Now Open

We’re very excited to be launching our very first Fishing Raffle. The prize, kindly donated by Orvis UK, is a spectacular day’s fishing for 6 Rods on the flagship 'Ginger Beer' beat along the River Test in Hampshire. Rare Opportunity: Win this superb experience for you and your friends. Limited...

“Springers” come early on the River Frome

GWCT Fish Counter records the earliest returning adult salmon to the River Frome in 20 years! Luke Scott, Fisheries Research Assistant, at the GWCT Salmon & Trout Research Centre got a nice surprise when checking the video footage from the River Frome counter from the 14th February 2023. Thi...

Beaver: Environmental engineer or waterway menace - are we any closer to knowing?

By Henrietta Appleton, GWCT Policy Officer (England) In early 2021 Dylan Roberts, our Head of Fisheries, wrote a blog on the reintroduction of beavers entitled “Environmental Engineer or a waterway menace?”. With the launch of the Species Reintroduction Task Force and in particular calls for bea...

Missing Salmon Alliance on BBC Radio 4 Farming Today

All this week the BBC Radio 4 Farming Today programme has been exploring the future of salmon, both farmed and wild. This morning they spoke to Stuart Singleton-White, representing the Missing Salmon Alliance (MSA), about the pressures that wild salmon face and what can be done to give wild salmo...

EFRA calls for government to take soil health seriously – just like some farmers are doing already!

By Henrietta Appleton, Policy Officer England The GWCT is delighted that the headline of the EFRA report following its soil health inquiry is that government should take soil health as seriously as it does our other critical assets of water and air. The risk to food production and climate change ...

An electric experience: catching salmon in the River Frome

5 minute readBy Jess Brooks On a bright September afternoon in Dorset, I am in a pair of green waders in a gravel-bottomed tree-lined stream. The rain has cleared, the gnats have come out and the shrill squeak of a kingfisher pierces the gentle sound of shallow water. Luke Scott, Fisheries Scient...

New approaches to wildlife management

By Prof. Chris Stoate, Allerton Project Head of Research In chapter 4 of Farming with the Environment I presented the results of our research into the very wide range of wildlife associated with the farmed environment at Loddington. But nationally and globally, the abundance and species diversity...