GWCT News Blog

The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) has a long history of pioneering research on woodcock populations and migration. 

This summer, GWCT scientists were working near Exmoor, looking at the effect that winter game crop plots may have had on breeding songbirds the subsequent spring. 

Earlier this month, the High Court rejected an application for judicial review of Defra’s burning regulations. 

The recent purchase of Pentwyn Farm by the Radnorshire Wildlife Trust has raised much discussion across farming communities where farms are being bought up by non-farming interests to plant trees or focus purely on biodiversity.

The plan, launching later this year, sets out how to avoid curlew becoming extinct as breeding bird in Wales by 2033 and the wider benefits to society, benefits for key species of conservation concern and benefits for climate change that flow from management for Curlew.

We respond to the recent decision taken by the Welsh Government to 'bring forward legislation to amend the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 to ban the use of snares and glue traps'.

The Peridx Spring Trap has now been added to the list of approved traps for stoat control in Wales under General Licences 019 and 020. 

Research shows that allocating just 2.2% of a farm to flower-rich habitat more than doubled the density of bumblebee colonies, which in turn boosts productivity.

Mike Swan commiserates over the decline in fish populations in the south country chalk streams.

There is a school of thought that says grey partridges just cannot take rain, and that the chicks will all expire if they have to face anything much more than a light shower. Well, it clearly isn’t true.