GWCT News Blog

Vital conservation work must swiftly restart before the only place we can hear the call of the curlew is on the radio.

Natural England have agreed to a meeting on Wednesday 1^st May. If you have questions you would like us to put to them, please submit them below and we will publish their responses

We understand people are having problems downloading the new General Licences forms from the Gov.uk website. You can download them here.

From midnight on Thursday 25 April 2019 it will be illegal to trap, shoot (or otherwise kill or take) the General Licence species such as crows, magpies and woodpigeons in England. Read our advice. 

Natural England has said it will be replace three of its existing General Licences.

Our current shoot raffle line-up features some truly unbelievable prizes.

Guest blog on behalf of Rob Marrs, Emeritus Professor at the University of Liverpool and President of the Heather Trust.