Press Releases - 2013

A final opportunity to hear the ‘behind the headline’ experiences of a serving officer of the Grenadier Guards while on a recent tour of Afghanistan has been arranged by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust at a specially organised evening talk in Oxfordshire in March.

Britain’s leading wildlife research charity is on the lookout for talented young camera enthusiasts to take part in its 2013 nature photography competition.

Another tranche of Scottish Government approved Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) fox and rabbit snaring training courses will be held this February to bring game and wildlife managers up to speed with the latest legislation and essential training requirements.

One thousand keen-eyed volunteers are required to count one of the UKs most elusive birds in more than a thousand woods across the UK in the 2013 national woodcock survey being organised by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) and the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO).

The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust’s Drumochter lodge near Dalwhinnie will be the venue for two vital practical training courses for land managers on Thursday March 14.

A Cumbrian farmer has won a prestigious conservation award in recognition of the work he does to help threatened grey partridges on his farm. Martin Baird of Red Hall Farm near Wigton has been awarded the 2012 Cumbrian Grey Partridge Group trophy by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT).

A rare opportunity to hear the ‘behind the headline’ experiences of a serving officer of the Grenadier Guards while on a recent tour of Afghanistan has been arranged by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust at a specially organised evening talk at Marlborough, Wiltshire in March.

New data show that salmon are again in decline because of the dual effects of a prolonged drought in 2011 followed by extreme flooding last year.

A rare opportunity to hear the ‘behind the headline’ experiences of a serving officer of the Grenadier Guards while on a recent tour of Afghanistan has been arranged by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust at a specially organised evening talk in the spectacular Hatfield House in Hertfordshire in February.

Wildlife researchers from the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) are inspiring young students from local schools in the New Forest with science and introducing them to the fascinating world of wildlife research.