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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?

In April 2023, the Lowland Gamebird research group finished a full year of walking 3km transect routes across a number of sites every three weeks, looking for fox scats and recording wildlife sightings.

The BEESPOKE project is hosting an open day at the Allerton Project to discuss the benefits of encouraging pollinators, provide advice on the countryside stewardship options available to do so, and help outline the kind of outcomes you might see as a result.

If shoots follow the Code and the Principles then a net biodiversity gain will be the result – that is surely what the RSPB want to see. 

“Good commercial farming can work hand in hand with nature”, reiterated The Earl of Caithness, as he challenged the idea of designating wild belts, the subject of an amendment to the Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill.