GWCT News Blog

As well as providing a snapshot of the bird population on UK farms, the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust’s Big Farmland Bird Count aims to raise awareness of the vital role Working Conservationists such as farmers and other land managers play in helping farmland birds. For children it is a chance to look, to listen, and to learn – not only about the birds and how to spot them, but also how counting them can help us understand which of our birds are in the most serious trouble and what we can do to help.

Join FWAG East advisors ahead of this year's Big Farmland Bird Count survey for a two-hour farm walk on the Herts/ Cambs/ Essex border to hone your farmland bird identifications skills.

The newly launched Wensleydale & Swaledale Environmental Farmers (SWEF) Group has won a £100,000 National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF) bid to fund the development of the group and its catchment-scale conservation ambitions.

We’re kicking off another year with our fantastic January sale, offering something for everyone at deal prices. Here is a curated list of our favourite items you might be interested in.

We are pleased to announce that our GWCT Game Conferences are back for 2025. 

We've teamed up with Scottish Land & Estates and the Scottish Regional Moorland Groups to put on a series of Pie & Pint Evenings.

We’re running three full-day courses across the country, covering fox control, corvid control and tunnel trapping for small mammals.

General Licences for 2025 were issued by NatureScot in December 2024 and are in effect as of 1 January 2025.

The beginning of the new calendar year offers an opportunity to reflect on the results of the health testing in red grouse carried out by GWCT Advisory Services Scotland in 2024.

Comment from Ross Macleod, Head of Policy Scotland, Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust.