GWCT News Blog

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. 

The Daily Telegraph recently reported that the RSPB is seeking contractors to undertake predation management as part of their efforts to protect curlews in Northern Ireland.

Please join us in Wales for some exciting events throughout May. Feel free to invite your friends, non-members are always more than welcome. Be quick though - places are limited!

On 5 and 6 July 2023, ADA, the association for flood and water management authorities throughout the UK, are hosting a unique working demonstration and exhibition highlighting innovations in sustainable water management and flood resilience.

The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust is very proud of its association with the Purdey Awards. The link between conservation and shooting that the awards highlight is precisely what GWCT is all about – conservation through wise use.

The abandonment of heather management in the Peak District National Park threatens rare birds and peatlands‚ as evidenced in a ground-breaking new report on the growing risk of catastrophic wildfire.

JM Osborne Rural and Sporting have been involved in shoots and shooting in one form or another since 1972 and have seen a massive change in that near 50 year period. 

It is easy to think that urban foxes are a new phenomenon, but records of foxes in towns go back to the 1890s in Switzerland, and the 1930s in London. There are lots of urban folk who love to have foxes about, but those who don’t often ask why they don’t go back to the countryside, “where they belong”. But what brought them into town in the first place?