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
