May

GWCT, like other rural conservation organisations has called for an urgent response from Defra over its proposal to make a major change to GL43 – the interim general licence which covers gamebird release on or within 500m of European Protected Sites in England.

The second round of Defra's Landscape Recovery fund is now open for applications. The initiative is aimed at promoting sustainable food production and conservation. 

In conservation management, Professor John Lawton advised conservation efforts should be ‘bigger, better and more joined up’, and that is exactly what is needed when it comes to American Mink control in the UK.

Organisers of The GWCT Welsh Game Fair have announced that popular Welsh hill farmer Gareth Wyn Jones is set to host a pop-up restaurant at the two-day event and appear in the theatre when it returns to Vaynol Estate in Gwynedd, North Wales on Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 September 2023.

The partridge pair surveys are an essential tool for monitoring the population dynamics of the grey partridge, Perdix perdix, a ground-nesting bird found in the UK and across Europe, that we use as an indicator species for farmland biodiversity.

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Last Sunday, the GWCT’s Head of Wildlife Recovery Dr Francis Buner held a talk about house sparrows in the church at Newton Valence in Hampshire. The talk provided lots of information about the house sparrow and gathered interest for a house sparrow box project, hoping to implement 50+ house sparrow boxes around the small rural village. The project aims to increase the local house sparrow population and also to allow us to study their population dynamics more closely.

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The waders at GWSDF are keeping us busy! Following our previous update, we now have 50 lapwing nests and 12 oystercatcher nests, including a couple of second attempts.