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Win an exclusive day for 8 Guns at The Loddington Shoot
An exciting and extremely rare opportunity for a team of eight guns to shoot at the GWCT’s demonstration farm in Leicestershire, where rolling topography provides varied and challenging shooting.
Tickets £50 each (buy as many as you like t...
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Dear Scottish member
I have now been in post for five months as the Director for The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust for Scotland, having taken over from Dr Adam Smith, who has moved to be Director (Policy). There is a lot going on, much of which you will be aware, and the aim of this lett...
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There is increasing pressure for agri-environment schemes to deliver greater benefits and farmland to provide more food. Therefore if the value of agri-environment schemes could be extended to support additional species, provide extra functions such as reducing soil erosion and generating nitroge...
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Common kestrel
The Hovering Hunter, the Windhover.
When I was a child, my only way of enduring long car journeys was the prospect of counting kestrels hovering beside the motorway, but recently I have noticed they are less frequent along the busy roads in Hampshire and seemingly more abundant in ...
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Blackthorn
The seasons have felt quite odd this year. It started with a seemingly late spring, followed by a start-stop harvest, but now it is finally starting to feel a bit chilly. The change in season was very much felt last Saturday (23 October) while I was at Rotherfield Park Estate with my c...
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Pheasants are usually released in small woods or near to the edge of larger woodland blocks. This is because pheasants prefer the woodland fringe, an area up to 50 metres from the edge. Pheasants require regular access to open areas for sunning and feeding during winter. In spring, males hold bre...
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Given the right conditions, predatory insects and spiders can overwinter in field boundaries and in spring move into the crop, reducing pest numbers significantly. By providing places for them to spend the winter you can encourage winter boundary densities of more than 1,000 per square metre.
We ...
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The Hunting with Dogs Bill repeals and replaces the Protection of Wild Mammals Act, which was passed in 2002. The bill makes it clear that it is illegal to hunt a wild mammal with a dog. The owner or occupier of land also commits an offence if he/she allows another person to do so. The maximum p...
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Will you help us to prove what’s driving nest losses?
By Dr Andrew Hoodless, GWCT Director of Research
You and I both know that many ground-nesting birds are in desperate need of help.
If you look at the red list of Birds of Conservation Concern, it’s there for all to see. Lapwing, curlew, ringe...
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With your help we can come out of the pandemic even stronger
By Teresa Dent CBE, GWCT Chief Executive
3 minute read
A year on from the start of the pandemic, your support has given us hope and enabled us to keep going – thank you. When the pandemic hit last March, we forecast a drop in income of...
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