Conservation

The Gylfinir Cymru partnership, involving BASC and 15 other partner organisations, has launched a 10-year plan to reverse curlew decline in Wales.

Watch the BTO’s new film on how curlew breeding is being given a head start with the help of gamekeepers on the Sandringham Estate.

Marnie Lovejoy has been appointed as BASC’s new head of environmental law research, with the aim of securing the future of sustainable shooting.

Project Penelope, an international collaboration which seeks to halt the decline of Eurasian widgeon, has got underway in the UK.

A project to protect the habitat and breeding grounds of waterbirds in Lithuania has been boosted by a pledge of €17,000 from the WHCT.

With a total of 15 chicks reared from six nest sites, BASC’s osprey project is heralding another hugely successful breeding season in the Lake District.

BASC has been working with Blackpool Aspire Academy to inspire students to get involved in practical conservation projects at school.

Guest blogger and keen wildfowler, Gethin Jones, reviews Mary Cowell’s latest book Beak, Tooth and Claw – Living with Predators in Britain.

BASC’s campaign for Invasive Species Week has captured the imagination of the press, putting squirrel and muntjac on the dinner menu.

Read Dr Conor O’Gorman’s blog on the role sustainable shooting has to play in the government’s ambitious plans for nature recovery in England.