Blogs

The AONB Family’s Outstanding Week starts this weekend and aims to get people out into our outstanding landscapes to see the work that is being done and show everyone what’s going on.

We recognise the issues raised in the State of Nature Report and we firmly believe that the solution lies in helping farmers to deliver a better environment alongside profitable businesses. We shouldn’t forget that there is a considerable amount of good work already being done, and we need to help farmers build on this.

You may have seen Andrew Gilruth’s letter published in The Times on Thursday, 15 September 2016.

Andrew Gilruth reports from the recent conference in Sheffield, which featured an impressive selection of speakers.

We preview this week's All Party Parliamentary Group for Game and Wildlife, hosted by the GWCT at Westminster on Thursday 15th September.

A new tool has been developed to help make it easier for farmers to inform beekeepers directly of their intention to spray insecticides on particular fields.

The latest issue of Gamewise, the exclusive GWCT members’ magazine, will be arriving through our members’ letterboxes at the end of September. We preview it here.

In recognition of the changes taking place within British agriculture, GWCT together with BASIS (Registration) Ltd have developed a unique Conservation Management course.

Counting partridges poses a few challenges, even for the best birders. To help you master these field ID challenges, the GWCT has created a new grey partridge ID guide for bird ringers and field observers.

Simon Lester, former head gamekeeper at Langholm Moor, reports on the ‘is there a future for grouse-shooting’ Q&A at the Bird Fair at Rutland Water, Leicestershire, on Friday 19 August 2016.