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Releasing for shooting in lowland habitats

The Salisbury Plain Study

Re-establishing grey partridges through releasing

Facts and figures

We employ over 100 staff, including many scientists, and run over 60 research projects - many in collaboration with universities supervising PhD students. We have an annual income of £6.8 million mostly coming from members, donations, fundraising events, sponsorship and charitable trusts. The re...

History of the Trust

A severe outbreak of the disease Strongylosis in grey partridges in 1931 led Major HG Eley (a cartridge manufacturer employed by ICI) to establish the ICI Game Research Station at Knebworth in Hertfordshire. He gave a research grant to Doug Middleton at the Bureau of Animal Population at Oxford, ...

Data back to Darwin

Undergraduate placements

Each year the GWCT hosts undergraduate students on ecology, conservation and data science-related degrees, offering them an exciting opportunity to spend their sandwich placement year taking part in important game and wildlife conservation research. Placements are based at both our headquarters a...

PepsiCo FAB

The PepsiCo FAB (Farming Arable Biodiversity) project aims to demonstrate how productive agriculture does not need to suffer for good environmental stewardship. The project uses what was learned during the EU Interreg PARTRIDGE project (2016-2023) and is aiming to scale up its approach. To demons...

Julie Ewald

Principal Scientist – Farmland Ecology & GIS Julie grew up on a mixed farm in northeast Nebraska, USA, and received her PhD from Glasgow University, joining the GWCT in 1995. She manages the GWCT’s Sussex Study, National Gamebag Census, the Partridge Count Scheme, heads our GIS (Geographical ...