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The GWCT supports the return of native species including by reintroduction – after all we have been party to some of them! However, we are of the view that all reintroductions must follow International Union of Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Guidelines. 

Steve Moreby’s career with the GWCT has spanned more than 40 years. During this time he has studied the diet of grey partridges and red grouse, and looked at agricultural management and its effects on insects. 

The health of our soil literally and metaphorically underlies the ecosystem on which we all depend. Not least, it is fundamental to farming.

Supplementary feeding has become a widespread management tool for declining farmland birds. In the countryside in late winter there is often not enough natural seed food, which causes a hungry gap between February and April when lots of birds die of starvation.

The Allerton Project team recently attended the Low Carbon Agriculture event at the NAEC Stoneleigh to represent the AgriCaptureCO2 project, an EU Horizon 2020 programme of which we have been a member since 2020.

The GWCT’s West of Scotland Auction will be held at Oran Mor on Thursday 16th March but the auction website is now live so anyone can bid online!

GWCT MEMBERS qualify for reduced rates on entry and free Gold forward parking! We are delighted to return our GWCT members’ enclosure and dining facilities to a more familiar format in 2023. 

Please come and join us for the first ever Women Who Work in Fieldsports event. The event is an In Conversation with Alexandra Henton, Editor of The Field Magazine, and Claire Zambuni, Founder of Zambuni PR.