GWCT News Blog

These are the headline questions we are asking in this year’s Game and Conservation Benchmarking Survey.  The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust has been involved in the survey for many years, assisting Savills with the conservation element of this important survey. 

Mike Swan laments the lack of young people in our sport, and asks “How do we recruit the younger generation?”.

The GWCT welcomes the scale and scope of Henry Dimbleby’s National Food Strategy – there can be no doubt that our diets, the way in which we produce our food and its impact on the environment are all inextricably linked.

With the arrival of fine weather, we are looking forward to welcoming members to the GWCT stand at the Game Fair when it returns to Ragley Hall, Warwickshire 23-25th July.

Each development stage of a barn owl chick is crucial to increase their chances of successfully fledging, so we take this opportunity to look back at these important stages before the chicks in the Owl Box LIVE nest start to fledge.

This week (12th to 18th July) is Bees Needs Week, so what better time than to think about supporting bees and other pollinators on the shoot?

Harry Townshend ran 100 miles all in one go. And he did it in aid of GWCT. Even though I saw him do some of it, and kept track of all of it, I find it hard to get my head round what he did.

Behind the scenes with GWCT Wales Projects Manager Lee Oliver as part of the Elwy Valley SMS Project developing bark stripping survey methodologies, working alongside Dr Craig Shuttleworth from The Red Squirrel Trust.

St David’s Game Bird Services have been working in close collaboration with other vet practices and shooting organisations to prepare the launch of a new Pen Scoring Matrix this summer which aims to better assess the environment, health and welfare of game birds prior to release.