Blogs

Due to current events the GWCT Scottish Auction will only be taking place online this year - but it's our biggest auction yet - with 161 unique 'money-can't buy' lots available to bid on. Online bidding opens on Sunday 26th April but you can view the auction catalogue here.

If we want to stop the curlew going the way of many other birds, such as the corncrake and the nightjar, we are going to need Defra to allow landowners to resume protecting the curlew’s young on their most important breeding grounds.

If you are able to operate Larsen traps this Spring, are you up to speed with the regulations?

For many years, the GWCT and others have used a figure of 75% for the percentage of upland heather moorland found in the UK. Some have questioned the basis of that estimate and we discuss it here.

Living in the middle of nowhere is difficult at the best of times. But when a global pandemic hits and you’re not allowed near civilisation, different challenges arise. Limited to brief once-weekly interactions with our boss and farm research assistant Marlies, and the occasional grunt and wave from the farmer Allan, it would be easy to start losing your mind a bit. Thankfully, spring was on hand.

We may be cooped up but lets take the opportunity to attract and nurture some of our garden friends, learning while we do.  I have written this from my own self isolation using what I can from around the house.

Find out more about our new collection of case studies of pioneering conservationists in the uplands.

We would like everyone in the community to know that we are here for anyone in these uncertain times during the Coronavirus crisis
Our helpline is open 24/7 and our support is available for any issue affecting a gamekeeper in work and at home, their families or in retirement and later life.

Here's a round-up of all the news from the GWCT last week.