Blogs
9/5/2024 in: GWCT News Blog
We currently have three exciting online auctions available for everybody to bid in.
7/5/2024 in: GWCT News Blog under: Allerton Project , Events
Check out the latest line-up of Summer events at the GWCT Allerton Project.
7/5/2024 in: GWCT News Blog
Are you a GWCT member living in Berkshire? If so, we have a favour to ask...
3/5/2024 in: GWCT News Blog under: Farming , Farmland Ecology , Grey partridge , GWCT Scotland
Over the last few weeks, the Scottish Lowlands team has been busy completing the tenth year of spring grey partridge pair surveys on Balgonie farm.
22/4/2024 in: GWCT News Blog under: Allerton Project
The Common Earthworm is the posterchild for UK earthworms due to its impressive size and longevity, living for an average of 4-8 years and growing up to an enormous 35cm when mature. It recently wiggled its way to a landslide victory in The Guardian’s inaugural invertebrate of the year award, cementing its place (for this year at least) as the UK’s favourite spineless creature.
22/4/2024 in: GWCT News Blog under: GWCT Partners
Thanks to the generosity of GWCT supporters and the HOLTS Auctioneers Charity and Legacy Programme another £12,500 was raised for the GWCT over the HOLTS March / April sale cycle.
19/4/2024 in: GWCT News Blog under: GWCT Scotland
19/4/2024 in: GWCT News Blog under: Action for Curlew , Waders
To mark World Curlew Day we'd like to share ‘Call of the Moors', a poem written by Nigel Algar Orde-Powlett, later 6th Baron Bolton, when he was a teenager. It was published in 1918 and he wrote it after his older brother 2nd Lieutenant William Percy Orde-Powlett was killed in action during World War One
As part of his final studies at The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, Nico Venables has built a marionette puppet of a Curlew which he believes is the first of this puppetry style.
17/4/2024 in: GWCT News Blog under: GWCT in the media , Pheasants & Releasing , General Licences
In response to the conclusion of the legal challenge brought by Wild Justice against Defra regarding the issuing of licences for gamebird releases in the Deben Estuary and Breckland in 2023, The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust has issued the following statement.