GWCT News Blog

From typewriters to desktops, and from chasing partridges to managing databases, Corinne Duggins looks back at 40 years at the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust.

Time is running out! We wanted to give you a heads up that tickets for our highly coveted GWCT Loddington Shoot Draw are disappearing faster than gun shells on a busy shoot day.

Historically, Scottish agri-environmental schemes have found it difficult to find a balance between establishing measures for biodiversity and ensuring that the system itself works for farmers.

The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust is very proud of its long association with the Purdey Awards for Game and Conservation.

So, the Wildlife Management and Muirburn (Scotland) Bill has passed through Scottish Parliament, marking nearly seven years of scrutiny, originating with the implementation of the Werritty Grouse Management Review in 2017.

In early 2020, when our various organisations announced a joint plan to phase out the use of lead in live quarry shooting, no one could possibly have known about the glitches that would get in the way.

If we hoped for some respite from the weight of policy consultations, bills and legislation that confronted us in 2023, the barrage has continued unabated so far this year.

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I have been asked to present on the need to balance conservation with access at a conference on Public Rights of Way. This has instigated me to consider what the network of paths across our landscape means – why do they exist?

Defra have now provided details of the 2024 licensing arrangements for gamebird releasing and management on and near Special Protection Areas (SPAs).