Blogs

Black grouse in the UK have declined severely in both population size and range over the past 200 years. To measure trends in numbers over time in northern England, our GWCT Uplands team counts lekking males in the spring from vantage points. To measure breeding productivity, we also count black grouse females and their broods using pointing dogs every summer.

We're running two essential conferences for game managers in the first part of next year.

Black grouse are vanishing from our landscape. Once found across much of the UK, these remarkable birds are now restricted to only a few areas.

The consultation is open until 10 December 2024, providing a platform for you to share your views on the proposed approach.

We've already sold over 1,700 packs of our 2024 Christmas cards and stocks are beginning to run low. Please order yours now to avoid missing out.

Getting peatland and upland heath management right will be vital to ensuring our moorlands’ continued contribution to climate change mitigation and nature recovery.

As someone who has worked to research and conserve wild Atlantic salmon for over 30 years, GWCT Head of Fisheries Dylan Roberts is enraged, that both national and international governments have allowed our rivers to deteriorate into such a sad state.

Starting in 1970, the GWCT’s ongoing Sussex Study is the world’s longest running scientific study on invertebrates in the cereal ecosystem, providing a robust indication of the national picture.

The GWCT condemns the illegal killing of all birds of prey and so the RSPB’s Birdcrime Report, which records 1,344 incidents of the illegal killing of raptors in 15 years, makes for depressing reading. Sadly, the criminal acts of a minority bring gamekeepers into disrepute. By doing so, they cloud the positive conservation work done by game managers across the country – including their work to help raptors.

The project aims to protect the black grouse, a red-listed species of high conservation concern, from the potential negative impacts of climate change. The project focuses on increasing breeding success and expanding the black grouse's current range in the North Pennines into the North York Moors using a conservation translocation technique.