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“Hedges provide food sources, nesting sites, foraging habitats and are wildlife corridors for a huge variety of insects, birds and mammals. They also help prevent soil erosion, give shelter for livestock and sequester carbon. What's not to like!”, says Megan Lock, Farmland Biodiversity Advisor a...
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Gamekeepers are being urged to keep up to date with the latest developments by signing up this year’s annual GAME conference run by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT).
Run online via Zoom on Thursday 2 December, the information-packed event will feature the latest research and advi...
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2023 is the GWCT Big Farmland Bird Count’s tenth birthday. Ahead of this year’s count, its founder Jim Egan, is encouraging land managers to take part. He said:
“Understand that what you do makes a differ...
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A Northumberland estate is to offer a rare opportunity for members of the public to view its conservation measures this summer. The proceeds raised will go towards funding the UK's leading wildlife research charity.
The 'Soil and Song Conservation Walk' is being held at the Middleton North estate...
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PEF is an environmental cooperative launched in 2023 representing 77 farmers covering 40,000ha across the Dark Peak and South West Peak in partnership with the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) and the NFU
The £100,000 funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund will help establis...
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The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust’s (GWCT) demonstration shoot at Loddington in Leicestershire has passed the Aim to Sustain (A2S) Game Assurance scheme with flying colours. The standards include assessment of animal health and welfare, food quality, environmental enhancement and protec...
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An Avon Valley farmer and Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) ecologist are celebrating the return, for the fifth year in a row, of a female lapwing to the farm where she originally hatched. The lapwing hatched in a field on Will Mitchell’s farm alongside the River Avon on the Hampshire...
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A charity day held at Sandringham Estate on 18 May, honouring the extraordinary legacy of HRH The late Duke of Edinburgh’s contribution to conservation, raised £330,000 for the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT).
The GWCT is the UK’s leading independent wildlife research charity. For ...
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All shoots urged to take part in National Gamebag Census
Long-running GWCT initiative is an important conservation tool
Help build a historical perspective on shooting
Contribute to fighting misinformation about species abundance
As you pack away your guns after another season in the field, the...
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The thought of weeds thriving in a farm’s arable crops is usually cause for concern, but it might be one way to help invertebrates to recover according to a new study by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT). They found that as the number of arable weeds increased, so did the number a...
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