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

Take a look below for a sneak preview of what’s inside:

Regulars

• Teresa Dent ponders the countryside’s post-Brexit future
• Your letters
• Our work in Scotland - research, news, the Golden Plover award, Scottish Fair, education and events
• This season’s Christmas cards
• Countryside foraging - Mike Short takes us on a trip to Spain
• A round-up of events around the UK
• Kieran Buckley tells us all about grey partridge restoration in Ireland

Conservation Features

• The importance of soil, an agricology open day and cover crop corner
• Owen Williams of the Woodcock Network discusses the way GWCT research has helped to raise awareness of the elusive bird
• The relationship between brown and sea trout
• 2017 Big Farmland Bird Count
• The predation milestone of Salisbury plain – 20 years on
• 25 years of monitoring songbirds at the Allerton Project
• Our Waders for Real project in the Avon Valley

Expert Advice

• Agroforestry - a collaboration with the Woodland Trust puts the sheep among the trees
• Working together - how our relationship with Sparsholt College has thrived
• Creating the ultimate...brood-rearing cover, predation control
• The importance of monitoring 

News

• Remembering the Duke of Westminster - celebrating the life of our former President
• Agri-environment funding - payments secured until 2020
• New Trustees - Nick Williams is one of six new Trustees
• Understanding barn swallows - a new study into this much-loved species
• Concert for conservation - Nottinghamshire event raises £70,000

Would you like to receive Gamewise?

If you would like to receive our exclusive members' magazine three times per year as well as our comprehensive annual review detailing all of our recent work year simply join the GWCT. 

What you receive when you become a member

✓ Exclusive access to dozens of unique courses and events taking place throughout the year.

✓ The chance to visit our pioneering Allerton Project Farm at Loddington for a guided tour.

✓ Free copies of Gamewise, our feature-packed magazine produced 3 times a year.

✓ Your own free personal copy of our Annual Review.

✓ Participation in the exclusive members' prize draw raffles.

✓ Access to our members' area at the Scottish Game Fair and priority parking.

✓ Regular email updates containing all our latest news and research findings.

✓ You can join your local County Group and get directly involved.

✓ Optional daily email news alerts containing all the latest conservation news.

✓ You can join your local County Group and get directly involved.

✓ Pleasure from the knowledge that you're helping the British countryside thrive both now and in the future.

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How your membership helps

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What our members say

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