July

After the success of last year’s inaugural Welsh Game Fair, we will be back at the Vaynol Estate, Bangor on 9-10 September and we would love to see you there.

Theresa Coffey Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs for the UK visited the GWCT Cymru tent at the Royal Welsh Show and met the whole team in Wales.

A two-day event celebrating the countryside will create a major boost for the North Wales economy with record-breaking sales of £12 million being forecast.

Bydd digwyddiad deuddydd i ddathlu cefn gwlad yn rhoi hwb mawr i economi gogledd Cymru a rhagwelir y bydd yn denu’r gwerthiant mwyaf erioed o £12 miliwn.

The Royal Welsh Agricultural Show takes place 24-27 July at Royal Welsh Showground, Llanelwedd, Builth Wells. GWCT Wales will be at Tent 883 in the Countryside Care Area and we would love to catch up with you.

Lesley Griffiths’ statement on the recent episode of BBC Countryfile that she would revisit the ban on snares in Wales, if curlew numbers continued to decline, leaves a glimmer of hope for the species. However, the fact remains that in refusing to accept the amendment to the Agriculture Bill, which would have permitted the use of HCRs under licence, the Welsh Government has put the survival of the curlew and other ground nesting species in doubt.

GWCT South East Wales Annual Clay Shoot.