Blogs

The bird which GWCT is probably most associated with is the Grey partridge yet in Wales we have very few left. 

The pair of barn owls occupying one of our Owl Box Initiative project boxes have chosen their nesting site and the male has been provisioning the female regularly.

If you’ve taken part in the GWCT/BTO ‘annual’ woodcock surveys before, please consider getting involved again this spring.

GWCT Head of Education Mike Swan discusses the move away from use lead shot and shares his own personal experience.

what do our bees and insects want, which are the most useful to have on your farm?

Please help us work towards better advice and support mechanisms for curlew by sharing your experience through our survey.

“My Lords, for biodiversity to be diverse and flourish in the UK, it needs habitat, species protection where appropriate, the provision of winter food for birds and animals and sensible predator control.” That was the opening remark by The Earl of Caithness last Thursday (22 April) as the Lords Grand Committee marked Earth Day by debating plans to declare a biodiversity emergency.

The results of the Scottish election next month could be highly influential regarding the impact on rural management for the next five years and beyond. 

Curlew breeding and wintering numbers are declining in Hampshire and periodic surveys of breeding waders in the New Forest suggest that the curlew population probably peaked in the 1980s at about 120 pairs, but has since declined to about 45 pairs.