Blogs

Count organiser Jim Egan reports on a busy start to this year's Big Farmland Bird Count.

Today marks the start of our Big Farmland Bird Count and what a build-up we have had this year for this very special event. GWCT Scotland ran three very successful Big Farmland Bird ID Days across the country and even across the water in Northern Ireland.

The popular West of England Game Fair will be taking place at the Royal Bath & West Showground on Saturday 18^th and Sunday 19^th March.

We’re teaming up with the National Gamekeepers’ Association to run a series of fox snaring courses throughout Wales during February and March.

GWCT Head of Advisory Roger Draycott reports from Austria where he has just run a successful farmland bird ID Day.

We respond to RSPCA claims that despite meeting international standards, snares are inhumane.

We respond to a piece in The Times that discusses approaches to conservation in the aftermath of Brexit.

We take a look at the most-read stories that featured in our Morning Briefing emails in January.

Graham Hartwell, Environmental Stewardship Manager at BASF, discusses his enthusiasm for the Big Farmland Bird Count.

The last contribution by the GWCT's Phil Jarvis to the NFU's 'British Farmer and Grower' as Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland County Chairman is a poem!