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The GWCT has been carrying out woodcock research since the 1970s, with a programme of studies that has only intensified as it has progressed through the decades, each building on those that have gone before so that a more detailed picture has developed. 

That hedges are good for wildlife & the character of our countryside is already well recognised. However, few appreciate that their linear, three-dimensional structure also means they can capture carbon at twice the rate of woodland.

We want to make sure you get your orders as soon as possible, so we're advising customers to place them now, with several Royal Mail strikes taking place in the coming days.

We recently launched our fantastic GWCT Devon High Four Raffle at Ashcombe Towers on Ashcombe estate. 

In the run up to the commencement of COP15 the role of protection in wildlife conservation has been promoted by a number of eNGOS so we thought it useful to consider whether nature benefits from protection – and therefore whether more is the answer.

Richard Leach, sales manager at Keepers Choice, looks at why feeding over the winter is more important than ever…

A redshank ringed by the GWCT Wetlands research team in the Avon Valley in 2021 has been re-sighted in Northwest France, near Lannion.

The question of how many woodcock might spend their winters in the UK may seem straightforward but is actually extremely difficult to answer. The fundamental reason is the secrecy of these birds, so that simple counting of those we may see in winter is not an accurate reflection of the number that might be present, camouflaged in the woods and active at night.

The EWWF Wildfire 2022 Conference in Belfast which I attended last week provided a similar belief that through constructive stakeholder engagement progress can be made.  But there is an added dimension in respect of wildfire – and that is the right time.  And that is now.