Blogs

We are delighted to announce that we have just launched a new scheme that enables you to support the GWCT’s vital conservation work whilst also earning yourself some extra money.

We recently published an updated version of one of our popular 'Green Guides' - Woodlands for Pheasants and Wildlife. Having sold several hundred copies we asked customers for their comments about the book. Here's what they had to say...

As the food producers and the rewilders battle it out over their polarised vision of what our future landscapes should look like, it's good to see the Chairman of Natural England, Tony Juniper, talking sense about how we need to build multifunctional landscapes which deliver different layers of outcomes.

A pioneering trial set up to help rebuild the population of the endangered Hen Harrier in England has reared and released 13 chicks this year.

This year’s art competition is open once again, all school aged pupils across Aberdeenshire, Angus and Perth and Kinross are invited to submit a piece of artwork.

Another year of “stubbornly static”, and in some cases rising, rodenticide residues in barn owls has prompted an uncomfortable question about the use of poison baits: could irresponsible practices by a delinquent minority restrict future pest control options for the responsible majority?

Once again, growers have been struggling in recent weeks with what has been for most yet another prolonged period of dry weather, broken only sporadically and in postcode lottery fashion by heavy showers winging in from the Atlantic.

The first week of my placement with the GWCT has been such a brilliant experience. I’ve learned so much already, although I do feel like I’ve been given so much information that I haven’t taken it all in just yet!

We’re once again running our popular three-day course for part-time gamekeepers at the GWCT Allerton Project in Leicestershire from 26 to 28 September.

If you’re wondering what to do with your guns and shooting accessories when the time has come to retire from shooting, or you are just considering making a little more room in your gun cabinet, our continued partnership with HOLTS auctioneers can help you and raise funds for the GWCT