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Join us at Shropshire Conference Centre, Shrewsbury for our annual Game 23 Conference on Tuesday 28th March.
This year is the first face-to-face Game Conference since 2019 and presents a fantastic opportunity for game managers to catch up and keep up-to-date with the latest developments, researc...
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Supplementary feeding has become a widespread management tool for declining farmland birds. In the countryside in late winter there is often not enough natural seed food, which causes a hungry gap between February and April when lots of birds die of starvation.
Research tells us that providing f...
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By Henrietta Appleton, GWCT Policy Officer (England)
The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust has just published ‘Sustaining Ecosystems: English Grouse Moors’ which is an audit of the contribution of grouse moor management to society’s wants and needs, as expressed by goals in the Government’s...
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Please come and join us for the GWCT Summer Dinner on Thursday 6th July at the Cavalry & Guards Club.It is going to be a fantastic evening, please see the programme of events below:
7.00 PM: Arrival at the Cavalry & Guards Club with welcome drinks in the Field Marshall Room and terrace
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Organisers of The GWCT Welsh Game Fair have announced that popular Welsh hill farmer Gareth Wyn Jones is set to host a pop-up restaurant at the two-day event and appear in the theatre when it returns to Vaynol Estate in Gwynedd, North Wales on Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 September 2023.
Gareth expl...
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The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust has been conserving the UK's wildlife for decades. But why do people join? Recently, we asked members for their stories about what made them join.
One member shared a story from the hot summer of 1976 when they spent a day with Dick Potts, looking at gr...
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Do you shoot? If so, take our free online test to earn your GWCT Accredited Game Shot certificate and badge.
The test consists of 25 multiple-choice questions and covers topics including:
Lead ammunition
Gamebird releasing
Predation control
Habitat management
Supplementary feeding
Disease and m...
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Do you manage a shoot? If so, take our free online test to earn your GWCT Accredited Shoot Operator certificate.
The test consists of 25 multiple-choice questions and covers topics including:
Lead ammunition
Gamebird releasing
Predation control
Habitat management
Supplementary feeding
Disease a...
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The GWCT are proud to have just achieved IIP (investors in people) re-accreditation in May 2023 (originally awarded to Allerton in 2005; GWCT, 2017) and are setting a strategic goal to achieve continuous improvement in IIP working towards our Centenary year in 2030. We know from experience that ...
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This week, several GWCT research staff are out in the Sussex countryside undertaking autumn partridge counts. Autumn counts provide a great insight into the breeding success of partridge pairs and, in turn, the health of farmland biodiversity. People on farms and estates across the country are ta...
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