GWCT News Blog

Located on the North Wales coast in Colwyn Bay, Bryn Williams at Porth Eirias was the beautiful location for the NE Wales’s GWCT Committee event ‘Game for Conservation’, in the company of local well known farmer and internet influencer Gareth Wyn Jones.

Chris Heward reports on a fantastic response to the 2023 Breeding Woodcock Survey and despite the conclusions not being straightforward, the results will help inform future woodcock conservation and policy.

Black grouse in England are now confined to the North Pennines, where low breeding success, habitat fragmentation and landscape configuration means that the remaining population has become  increasingly isolated. 

An evening full of flavour and conservation was held at Coleg Ceredigion at the end of January.

The GWCT’s West of Scotland Auction will be held at Òran Mór on Thursday 21st March but the auction website is now live so anyone can bid online!

After 35 years of dedicated service with the Trust, Dr Dave Baines left the GWCT last week. Dave is an exceptional fieldworker and has been one of our most productive senior scientists, having been an author on over 110 scientific papers during his career

As I write this the first curlew are returning to their breeding grounds in the UK. We welcome around 25% of the world’s breeding population each spring but without urgent intervention, this beautiful bird may soon become nothing more than a memory.

The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust welcomes the publication of today’s report on insect decline and food security by the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee.

Stable Events have worked with their commercial sponsor, Waverton investment managers, to offer all GWCT supporters free entry to this year’s Scottish Game Fair

Our Director of Policy and the Allerton Project, Dr Alastair Leake, shares his thoughts on the latest domestic hedgerow regulations.