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Phil Jarvis (right) hands across the Allerton Project’s ‘Training Manual’ to Joe Stanley.
With the future direction of landscape management, it has never been more important to balance an enhanced environment with sustainable food production and to be able to communicate this to a wider audience....
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Having postponed the popular GAME 2020 conference due to Covid-19, the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) is pleased to announce that the conference will now be held online via Zoom on Friday 2 October 2020.
The full programme (which you can download here) includes a series of talks o...
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IN A CHALLENGING TIME for charities across Britain, premium countrywear specialists Schöffel Country has raised a total of £11,735 for the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT). The popular brand donated £5 from every sale in its successful Black Friday charity campaign to the national...
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Barn owls in Sparsholt near Winchester can look forward to snug new homes in which to raise their owlets, as a result of the efforts of a group of students and New Forest-based charity the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT).
The students, from the Wildlife Ecology and Conservation degr...
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Pic by Pete Thompson
WILDLIFE enthusiasts across the country are being urged to take part in the Big Farmland Bird Count (BFBC), which is back for the seventh successive year.
The nationwide citizen science project calls on farmers, land managers and gamekeepers to spend 30 minutes spotting spec...
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National initiative to show the important role of farming in the British countryside
Last year over 1400 farmers took the time to count their wildlife
30 rare species spotted including much-loved starlings and song thrushes
With veganism, climate change and even lab-grown food all hot topics i...
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The latest State of Nature report rightly grabs the headlines with a vital assessment of the loss of British wildlife, but there is an “Untold Story” of private land managers’ spectacular success in reversing biodiversity declines at a local level.
Their stories are important because 75% of the ...
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A recently published study into the breeding and dispersal of capercaillie in Strathspey undertaken over four years from 2016-2019 has concluded that, without further managed landscape-scale intervention to improve breeding success, it is likely that the already threatened species will continue t...
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The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust’s annual Gun Draw is back. With the draw limited to just 1,000 tickets, there is an excellent chance of winning one of three superb prizes. This year’s ultimate winner will receive a pair of made-to-measure Sovereign side-by-side shotguns from William Po...
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Introducing tree leaves to a sheep’s diet could play an important role in reducing harmful greenhouse gas emissions, suggests research presented at the Intercropping for Sustainability conference.
Scientists from the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) monitored four groups of six Aberf...
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