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A GROUP of leading shooting and rural organisations has released the following statement in response tothe National Game Dealers Association (NGDA) announcing that it is committed to sourcing all feather and fur game from lead-free supply chains from 1 July 2022.
A spokesperson for the British A...
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British native wildflower seeds for planting on the new butterfly bank on Martin Down Farmer Cluster
Rare butterflies and bees will find refuge in the countryside on the Dorset – Hampshire border after two new butterfly banks were created on the Martin Down Farmer Cluster. The chalk banks, on fa...
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The 10th GWCT Big Farmland Bird Count Sponsored by the NFU – Friday 3 to Sunday 19 February, bfbc.org.uk
“We will not achieve biodiversity recovery if conservation is confined to nature reserves and national parks,” said Dr Roger Draycott, from the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) a...
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A unique fundraising event was held, in Suffolk on Friday, 28th February, which has helped to raise money for the UK's leading wildlife research charity, as well as showcasing some of the country's most notable gunmakers. The Gunmakers' Evening was located in the stunning surroundings of the Joc...
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What the Science Says is a new website that sets out to challenge misinformation and misreporting of ecological science. The online resource is the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust’s (GWCT) response to what many in the scientific community see as increasing inaccuracy in the discussion of s...
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‘Farming with Nature’ is a new book based on scientific research, which provides a practical guide to how conservation efforts aimed at the grey partridge can benefit farmland biodiversity. The grey partridge is one of the fastest declining farmland birds in Europe – by over 90% since the 1970s. ...
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A new collaboration aims to show how farmers can work together to achieve the recovery of some of the UK’s most threatened farmland bird species, including grey partridge, curlew and lapwing. The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) is working with a group of Shropshire farmers to establ...
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A study of breeding pairs of redshank – a threatened native wading bird species – whose population is recovering in the Avon Valley in Hampshire, has shown one intrepid individual travel more than 100km to Wales for the winter. Its epic journey is helping scientists from the Game & Wildlife C...
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The Environmental Farmers Group (EFG) has launched its latest and largest equalisation cell including catchments in Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire.
Over 170 farmers gathered at the Allerton Project in Leiceste...
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Don’t stop feeding your farmland birds now the shooting season has ended, was the unequivocal message by Sue Evans, GWCT Wales director, talking at at Central Association of Agricultural Valuers, rural economy conference in Llandrindod last month (Feb,19).
“A combination of seed bearing cover cr...
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