2024

Black grouse in England are now confined to the North Pennines, where low breeding success, habitat fragmentation and landscape configuration means that the remaining population has become  increasingly isolated. 

An evening full of flavour and conservation was held at Coleg Ceredigion at the end of January.

The GWCT’s West of Scotland Auction will be held at Òran Mór on Thursday 21st March but the auction website is now live so anyone can bid online!

After 35 years of dedicated service with the Trust, Dr Dave Baines left the GWCT last week. Dave is an exceptional fieldworker and has been one of our most productive senior scientists, having been an author on over 110 scientific papers during his career

As I write this the first curlew are returning to their breeding grounds in the UK. We welcome around 25% of the world’s breeding population each spring but without urgent intervention, this beautiful bird may soon become nothing more than a memory.

The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust welcomes the publication of today’s report on insect decline and food security by the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee.

Our Director of Policy and the Allerton Project, Dr Alastair Leake, shares his thoughts on the latest domestic hedgerow regulations.

Throughout our history, a main thread of what GWCT is about has been making sure that the results of our rigorous scientific research get through to land managers of all kinds, so that they can act on them.

The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) has shared scientific evidence with Welsh Government and demonstrated why hedgerows should be included in their 10% woodland requirement, but they have not taken this forward.

I have been delighted by the responses to my first monthly musings on hedges. Thank you. In my defence the initial blog was never intended to be all encompassing so I’m “hedging my bets” (pun intended!) and doing a follow up to acknowledge the excellent comments made.