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The Easter Special episode of BBC’s Countryfile was a true highlight of the holidays, featuring the conservation work behind thriving populations of lapwing and hares – both signs of spring across our countryside.

The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust Cymru has been awarded nearly £1m of government funding for a project aimed at halting the decline in curlew in Wales – a bird set to become extinct as a breeding population by 2033 if current trends continue.

A female curlew at the centre of a study by GWCT has broken the UK longevity record at the age of nearly 34. 

The national annual census of farmland birds – The Big Farmland Bird Count – is now underway and farmers, land managers and other ‘working conservationists’ up and down the country are encouraged to get out onto their land to count their birds over the next two weeks.

The start of the national annual census of farmland birds – The Big Farmland Bird Count – begins in a week’s time and this year it is running on a new digital platform. 

New research suggests badgers are one of the main threats to the survival of red-listed ground-nesting birds including lapwing and curlew, and that the risk of nests being predated increased during cold or dry weather when their stable diet of earthworms is less accessible.

A new project by the GWCT is underway to tag common snipe in three locations across the British Isles. The study aims to uncover where these elusive waders migrate to breed during the summer, while also allowing us to understand the reasons behind their decline and how best to support their conservation.

The winners of the inaugural Schöffel Countryside Awards have been crowned at a ceremony in central London – a celebration of private land managers, farms and partnerships whose dedication to wildlife management and conservation is helping to improve the health of the British countryside.

The breeding population of redshank – a threatened native wading bird species – is continuing to thrive in the Avon Valley in Hampshire thanks to the dedicated conservation work of the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust and local wildlife managers.