2018

A new independent survey reveals Welsh Environment Minister Hannah Blythyn was wrong to end pheasant shooting on Welsh government land and to go against the recommendation of the government body paid to advise her on the environment. 

Our Devon and Sussex county groups are thrilled to have secured two outstanding shoot day raffle prizes. Find out more and enter below - our raffles are open to GWCT members and non-members.

Few publications run blatantly misleading stories. It’s embarrassing. However, The Ecologist website has gone one better. Despite initially agreeing to accept a response to a misleading story, it has decided not to. Perhaps it was too embarrassing. You can read our response here.

Andrew Gilruth examines the Natural Resources Wales review into the use of firearms on their land and the decisive intervention from the Welsh Minister for Environment.

We respond to a recent piece written by George Monbiot in The Guardian.

Check all the exciting events we have going on this October. 

Sir, Chris Luffingham suggests pheasant shooting is just about the money however, repeated GWCT studies have shown it is also about conservation.

The RSPB press office appear to have forgotten that 75% of the world’s heather moorland is found in the UK because grouse moor managers have been fighting to save it - since before the RSPB existed.