To mark #WorldCurlewDay , we'd like to share 'Call of the Moors'. The poem, written by Nigel Algar Orde-Powlett, later 6th Baron Bolton, when he was a teenager was originally published in 1918.

🔊 Listen to the reading here: gwct.org.uk/blogs/news/202…

📢 Important words from our Director of Research, Andrew Hoodless, ahead of #WorldCurlewDay on Sunday 21st April.

🏆 We are delighted to announce that the 2024 GWCT Scottish Auction is now live with over 80 varied and exciting lots available to bid on. Online bidding closes on Thursday 2nd May so don't miss out!

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In today's #GWCT Morning Newsround:

🌡️ Scottish Gov says 2023 climate target 'out of reach'
🔬 Meet the scientists on a new wildlife frontier
🌱 Rewild the soil

Check out these stories and more in the Morning Briefing 👇🏼
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🚨 ADDITIONAL TICKETS RELEASED 🚨

We have just released additional tickets to our London screening of The Last Keeper. Tickets are just £10!

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Bracken has become a contentious subject for land managers, whilst it has some benefits, it is invasive and becomes dominant, which can have a range of negative impacts.

Read the full blog here 👇
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Lapwing update: 2 broods of chicks and three more nests when checked yesterday by The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust

In today's #GWCT Morning Newsround:

🔬 Decades of peer-reviewed research speaks for itself
🌳 The songbirds disappearing from Britain’s woods
🌧️ Weather-beaten, down but not out ... yet!

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Recent survey work has seen me come across a plethora of floral varieties.
Heres a few: cowslip, moschatel, garlic mustard, wood anemone, cuckooflower, cherry, bluebell, speedwell, and ground Ivy.
The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
#survey #fieldwork #womeninnature

If you can, please consider trying these Working for Wader projects to help gather vital data on our vulnerable waders. Anyone can take part. Please share! NatureScot Davy McCracken RSPB Scotland GWCT Scotland Scottish Gamekeepers

Thanks Winifred Robinson BBC Radio 4 for inviting me to talk about the challenges extreme weather is presenting for farmers & the wider availability of affordable/plentiful food as climate change takes an increasing toll.

NFU Press Team Countryside NFU Midlands
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✏️ In response to the conclusion of the legal challenge brought by Wild Justice against Defra regarding the issuing of licences for gamebird releases in the Deben Estuary and Breckland in 2023, The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust has issued the following statement.

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With hedgerows bursting into life across the farmed landscape, a nice piece on hawthorn and blackthorn from our friends at Woodland Trust🌳 🌳🌸🍒🫐

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In today's #GWCT Morning Newsround:

🍃 Bracken management, not control
⚠️ UK facing food shortages and price rises
🐝 Bumblebee species able to survive underwater

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Bracken has become a contentious subject for land managers, whilst it has some benefits, it is invasive and becomes dominant, which can have a range of negative impacts.

Read the full blog here 👇gwct.org.uk/blogs/news/202…

Have you joined the scheme? 🤔 The PCS is a free and voluntary scheme run by the GWCT since 1933 to collect information on the annual abundance and breeding success of grey partridges.

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In today's #GWCT Morning Newsround:

🪺 South Coast Osprey pair lay egg
📽️ The Last Keeper - Film Screening in London
🐱 Scottish wildcat population could get a Spanish boost

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Great to host another team from Nestlé UK & Ireland between sunshine & torrential freezing showers (!) here today as part of our partnership and work towards scaling regenerative agriculture across supply chains 🪱

🚨BREAKING NEWS 🚨

We have limited tickets now available to our London screening 📽️ of The Last Keeper.

🎟️Tickets are just £10 with the proceeds supporting Shepherds of Wildlife Society Society and GWCT Scotland.

Book here 👇
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