Blogs

New surveillance by the Campaign for Responsible Rodenticide Use UK has found genes for resistance to anticoagulant rodenticides in 78% of rats and 95% of house mice.

The GWCT, as scientific advisor to Aim to Sustain, are undertaking a survey to understand how the providers and participants in game shooting view self-regulation and how it could work best across the sector.

I may be an Englishman, but I am deeply in love with Wales and its wonderful countryside. It all started with early teenage holidays on the Llyn Peninsula, boating, fishing for mackerel and pollack, and birdwatching.

Our experienced Advisory team are planning to run eight predation management courses for gamekeepers and wildlife managers across England and Wales throughout February and March in 2023.

Are you a keen game shot looking to support wildlife conservation? Look no further than GWCT Shoot Raffles. With GWCT Shoot Raffles, you can enter to win amazing shooting experiences for you and your friends, all while supporting the important work of the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust.

The GWCT has been carrying out woodcock research since the 1970s, with a programme of studies that has only intensified as it has progressed through the decades, each building on those that have gone before so that a more detailed picture has developed. 

That hedges are good for wildlife & the character of our countryside is already well recognised. However, few appreciate that their linear, three-dimensional structure also means they can capture carbon at twice the rate of woodland.

We want to make sure you get your orders as soon as possible, so we're advising customers to place them now, with several Royal Mail strikes taking place in the coming days.

We recently launched our fantastic GWCT Devon High Four Raffle at Ashcombe Towers on Ashcombe estate. 

In the run up to the commencement of COP15 the role of protection in wildlife conservation has been promoted by a number of eNGOS so we thought it useful to consider whether nature benefits from protection – and therefore whether more is the answer.