About Us
The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust is the home of working conservation. We believe that wildlife can thrive if we focus on integrating it alongside other land uses.
We are unique in the breadth of research we carry out, seeking to ensure that game management continues to be sustainable and to benefit wider wildlife – water quality, shooting activities, upland research, arable farming, fishing, wetlands, silage and grazing – stewardship at a landscape scale.
Press releases
Dr Alastair Leake Receives National Agricultural Award for Leading The...
The Royal Agricultural Society of England (RASE) has awarded its 2023 National Agricultural Award to Dr Alastair Leake, the director of policy at... read more
08.09.2023 • By Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
Capercaillie faces extinction despite conservation efforts to reverse...
New research by the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) has shown that capercaillie numbers in Scotland have nearly halved in 10 years,... read more
07.09.2023 • By Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
New study shows grouse moor management is helping to slow curlew decline
Breeding curlews are raising four times as many chicks on the UK’s grouse moors, compared to similar unmanaged moorland sites, a new... read more
08.08.2023 • By Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
The Allerton Project Event: Five years of arable rotation research
The Allerton Project in Leicestershire is holding an information event to present the results from 5 years of collaborative research to evaluate... read more
04.07.2023 • By Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
Farmland projects showcase ways to halt the biodiversity crisis
The success of two farmland projects run across the North Sea region have shown that there are potential ways to halt the biodiversity crisis.... read more
30.06.2023 • By Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
World famous chalk streams will benefit from expanded Environmental...
Thirty-one farmers of the Test and Itchen catchments in Hampshire are set to join the 147 neighbouring farmers already supporting the... read more
28.06.2023 • By Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
How observing the wandering twilight flights of woodcock will help...
Lighter Spring evenings mean the start of the ‘roding’ season for the normally shy woodcock. And this Spring sees the start of the decennial... read more
13.04.2023 • By Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
GWCT welcomes acknowledgement of the growing threat of wildfire in the...
The GWCT welcomes the UK Climate Change Committee's 2023 report and its acknowledgement that the risk of wildfire will increase significantly... read more
30.03.2023 • By Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
Poole Harbour oil spill could have serious consequences for threatened...
UK wide conservation organisation the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT), has today highlighted it’s serious concerns over the impact of... read more
30.03.2023 • By Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
90 years and counting: historic citizen-science scheme calls on land...
A countrywide bird survey is using its 90 th birthday to call on farmers and land managers to join and commit to supporting wildlife. Since 1933,... read more
08.03.2023 • By Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
Let’s “shout about all the good work done on farms”, says GWCT Big...
3 – 19 February 2023 bfbc.org.uk . Follow on Twitter #bfbc Sponsored by the... read more
24.01.2023 • By Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
The latest research and practical moorland management advice at the...
Science-based conservation techniques for ground-nesting birds, hen harrier conflict resolution and the latest research into peatland management... read more
16.01.2023 • By Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
Farmers working to keep ‘globally rare’ chalk stream crystal clear
GWCT Video: Farmer-led conservation of the River Ebble www.gwct.org.uk/riverebblefilm Described as a ‘globally rare’ habitat, the... read more
12.01.2023 • By Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
“Conservation must go beyond nature reserves and national parks” say...
The 10 th GWCT Big Farmland Bird Count – Friday 3 to Sunday 19 February, bfbc.org.uk Sponsored by the NFU “We will not achieve... read more
15.12.2022 • By Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
A new place in the country for Ratty, and friends
Water vole reintroduction on farmland boosting other wildlife A recent reintroduction of a threatened native species to the Lower Avon... read more
28.11.2022 • By Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
The Allerton Project: helping profitable farming make space for nature...
Farming with the Environment - Thirty Years of Allerton Project Research A new book by agro-ecologist Professor Chris Stoate tells the... read more
18.11.2022 • By Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
Martin Down farmers creating spaces for rare butterflies on...
Rare butterflies and bees will find refuge in the countryside on the Dorset – Hampshire border after two new butterfly banks were created on the... read more
17.11.2022 • By Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
Hedgelaying World Record Attempt creates wildlife haven
National Hedgerow Week, Monday 10 October - Monday 17 October 2022* Ahead of this year’s National Hedgerow Week, more than 60 hedgelayers... read more
11.10.2022 • By Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
Unique designs make GWCT Christmas cards a ‘must-have’
GWCT Christmas cards 2022 now available www.gwctshop.org.uk A new range of Christmas card designs celebrating the British countryside with... read more
06.10.2022 • By Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
Moorland managers say “it’s not if, but when” for catastrophic wildfires...
For an accompanying video, visit youtube.com/watch?v=Dtc-3chFUc8 As the heather burning season begins in the English uplands, habitat... read more
05.10.2022 • By Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
GWCT Allerton Project leading the way on boosting the sustainability of...
Leicestershire Good Food Event, 29 September at the Allerton Project The GWCT’s demonstration farm the Allerton Project is hosting the... read more
23.09.2022 • By Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
Hedgerow Carbon Code: “good news for UK agriculture, climate change and...
National Hedgerow Week, 17 – 25 September 2022 Unlocking the environmental and income-generation potential of hedgerows in the British... read more
16.09.2022 • By Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
Up the ante on your shoot day and make a real difference to GWCT research
Shots are famously competitive and a sweepstake on a shoot day’s bag will always add to the fun. Over the years many shoots have generously run... read more
15.09.2022 • By Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
Hear about making habitat improvements work on an arable farming...
Three years ago, Ed Nesling took the plunge into a mid-tier countryside stewardship scheme on his 191-hectare Suffolk arable farm Flea Barn.... read more
16.08.2022 • By Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
Cotswold rural business recognised for GWCT Big Farmland Bird Count...
PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Cotswold rural business recognised for GWCT... read more
09.08.2022 • By Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
The Green Guide returns - gamekeepers’ “go-to” guide reimagined for the...
New ‘green guide’ to ‘Woodland for Pheasants and Wildlife’ launches at The Game Fair A classic guide to managing woodland for game has... read more
08.07.2022 • By Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
Lapwing’s welcome return to same Avon Valley farm for five years helps...
GWCT Wetlands team at the New Forest Show 2022 An Avon Valley farmer and Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) ecologist are celebrating... read more
08.07.2022 • By Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
GWCT ‘honoured and delighted’ as HRH The Prince of Wales takes on...
HRH The Prince of Wales has become Patron of the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT). The Prince of Wales follows in the footsteps of his... read more
04.07.2022 • By Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
Significant drop in Atlantic salmon returning to English river confirms...
The number of wild adult Atlantic salmon returning to the River Frome in southern England in 2021 was down almost 20% on its 10-year average. This... read more
24.06.2022 • By Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
Wildlife, biodiversity and soil health – a dairy farmer’s perspective
Event: Farm walk by drone, keynote speakers and panel discussion Saturday 25 June 2022, 12 – 5pm Tickets £25 On 25 June GWCT’s Wales’s... read more
20.06.2022 • By Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
