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The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) cannot support the banning of all managed winter burning on all deep peat, and we are disappointed that sweeping regulation rather than site specific collaboration is seen as the way forward. Our Peatland Report 2020, which reviewed the available...
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Watch this short video featuring trout and salmon passing through the GWCT Fisheries counter on the River Frome in Dorset:
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If you read the headlines around the recent Birds of Conservation Concern report, you’d have been rightly worried about the fate of many of our much-loved bird species. One group that is suffering more than most is aerial insectivores – birds that feed by capturing insects in flight, or ‘on the ...
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Today is the International Day of LGBTQ+ People in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). November 18th marks the anniversary of astronomer and gay activist Frank Kameny’s decade-spanning Supreme Court fight against homophobic workplace discrimination in the US, and as a result ...
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We would love to welcome you to stand H173 (near the game fair theatre) from Friday 29th July for exciting events at this year's Game Fair.
Friday 8am - New ‘green guide’ to ‘Woodland for Pheasants and Wildlife’ launches at The Game Fair
Dr Roger Draycott, GWCT Head of Advisory and Education, i...
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In 2018 and again this year, very little grouse shooting took place in Scotland. Gamekeepers and land managers surveyed their local populations using well established counting techniques in advance of the shooting seasons. Other than in a very few locations, they decided that there was an insuffi...
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By Bruce Russell, GWCT Director Scotland
You may be very disappointed with this announcement after all the hard work which the GWCT has devoted to the 'Werritty Review', and multiple representations to policy makers. As the recently published GWCT blog on the issue states, we are deeply concerned...
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By Dr. Jen Brewin, Writer and Research Specialist
Ahead of the debate taking place on 25th January in Westminster on the future of driven grouse shooting in England, the GWCT have prepared a series of four information sheets on key issues that are the main areas of disagreement on this contentio...
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Written by Nicholas Aebischer (Deputy Director of Research) and Henrietta Appleton, GWCT Policy Officer (England)
The debate over the conservation of hen harriers is one of the most controversial and polarised and as a consequence has been widely used in social science analyses of conservation c...
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Today marks the first anniversary since the publication of the joint statement to moving away from using lead in shotguns to shoot game. To mark the occasion the organisations and the cartridge manufacturers have issued this joint statement.
In addition to this the Environmental Research Institu...
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